An LA Story

Nothing seems to piss a New Yorker off more than losing a seemingly promising young citizen to La-la land, as if the move automatically signals the rapid loss of grey matter. Or worse, that it reveals something that was laying dormant all along - call it the 'superficial gene'. 'No-one works in LA,' a Manhattan colleague told me in complete seriousness. 'They just own three cars and drive all day.' Never mind that this person spends seven hours every weekend on the Long Island Expressway