Benjamin Moser: evaluation

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…If you’re trying to sell someone on living in Utrecht, how would you make the case? It’s the perfect city, is what I would say. It’s the most ideal place I’ve ever lived. I’ve lived here for a long time. It is like Brooklyn in the sense that it’s about the same distance. If you go from midtown Manhattan to Brooklyn, you have the same distance [as from Amsterdam to Utrecht]. It’s 40, 45 minutes door-to-door, but it’s much quieter and smaller, even though you also have everything because it’s a university town. This country is small, physically small, but has a lot of people. Even in towns like this, I don’t really think there’s anything here I don’t have. There’s not much that I would think, “If only . . .” I have to go to Amsterdam tonight, actually, for the Frans Hals opening at the Rijksmuseum. I’d love for the Rijksmuseum to be here in town, but the fact is, we don’t have the tourists. Amsterdam has really been struggling with the tourist question, just like Barcelona and Lisbon and Venice and, increasingly, so many cities. We don’t have that here. It’s quite nice. Brazil — why are Brazilians harder to interview?…

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