First of all, I'm sorry but...paypal is not spelt paypall. I'll bet you put that in there on purpose.
Your observations are interesting. I, too, think of the city as cold and hard. And I was going there in the late 60s when the population was just shy of 8 million. By contrast, when I lived there, Tehran had a population of 4 and a half million but it didn't seem cold or hard – even in the bazaar which was normally packed to the gills with people buying everything under the sun everything from gold to Isfahan cloth to live chickens. Tehran is a much more human place.
Your description of the guard strikes me as typical for a place like NYC. People's guards are up until there is something that you have in common. Then they can be human. Also seeing the actual piece of art is different than seeing a reproduction and there is, after all, a reason that they are called old masters.
First of all, I'm sorry but...paypal is not spelt paypall. I'll bet you put that in there on purpose.
Your observations are interesting. I, too, think of the city as cold and hard. And I was going there in the late 60s when the population was just shy of 8 million. By contrast, when I lived there, Tehran had a population of 4 and a half million but it didn't seem cold or hard – even in the bazaar which was normally packed to the gills with people buying everything under the sun everything from gold to Isfahan cloth to live chickens. Tehran is a much more human place.
Your description of the guard strikes me as typical for a place like NYC. People's guards are up until there is something that you have in common. Then they can be human. Also seeing the actual piece of art is different than seeing a reproduction and there is, after all, a reason that they are called old masters.