It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.
We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose. . . -- free to earn our own profits and make our own fortunes. . . Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high.