Reasons to Stay in New York

No this is not a report about Clare and her band deciding against leaving town. But it is about this town.

This city has become too expensive, maybe even too expansive, too susceptible to change, too stagnant, and above all, it's become a rather contradictory place to live. But on this weekend's excellent edition of Studio 360, taped at the recent Aspen Ideas Festival, host Kurt Andersen gave us some significant food for thought as to why this may not be a city so easily forsaken: