Ru Zi Ke Jiao

Newsweek magazine, in The Future of the City, writes:

“Today’s global economy is shaping up as a competition among the world’s cities, regardless of their location,  for talent, investment, and influence. Therefore, every city will need to make some decisions about what can truly differentiate it in that marketplace. What are its distinctive assets, capabilities, and limits? Once a city has clarified the end state it’s shooting for, its managers can optimize systems around that vision.”

NASH:  Talent longs to be free, including the restraints of citizenship.  If you’re still thinking of yourself as “an American” or “a Chinese” [or whichever nation you were born in], then you’re thinking too small.   To paraphrase Deng Xiaoping (among others): ‘Of course I love my motherland, but I am a Citizen of the World.’

I’ve been fortunate enough to have realized this back when I was quite a bit younger (my late 20’s), and so I’ve enjoyed the experiences of living in each of these cities for 6 months or more:

1. Miami, Florida (USA) (including Miami Beach)
2. Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA)
3. Caracas, Venezuela (Nation’s Capital)
4. Memphis, Tennessee (USA)
5. Mexico City, Mexico (Nation’s Capital)
6. Shenzhen, China

Of course, for most of those years (pre-internet) international travel, to say nothing of international living, was much more difficult than it is today.  But I wouldn’t trade any of it.  And best of all, I’m not finished yet.

Today’s question: Where would you like to live?   Come on, leave your answer in my comments section – you know you want to.