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Two Ladies Leave NYC After Realizing Their Carrie Bradshaw Dreams Will Never Come True
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 12, 2012
Modified Mar 12, 2012
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With the resurrection of Carrie Bradshaw (that Sex and the City prequel is happening whether we like it or not) comes the resurrection of grown women who think they are like so totally a Carrie.
The 31-year-old Carrie-coulda-been Julia Allison (who was once "famous" in certain corners of The Internet) has announced via this NY Post article that she left New York City last year with her best friend (also "a Carrie") and no one even noticed. And if she couldn't be Carrie Bradshaw IRL, then NO ONE CAN. From her new digs in Los Angeles, she warns "a new generation of women" about trying to Single White Female Ms. Bradshaw in real world NYC. She wonders, for instance, if fans know...
- ...that rent-controlled apartments like Carrie’s are hard to come by?
- ...that you'll have to use your Prada stilettos to kill the cockroaches?
- ...that eventually that douche from JP Morgan you're dating will replace you with a younger model?
- ...that you'll probably max out your credit cards on drinks, cabs, and clothes?
- ...that you'll never find four friends to get together every week for brunch?
- ...that you'll have to carry groceries UP STAIRS?
- ...that New York is "fucking exhausting" and will eventually eat your soul if you even have one?
Allison claims Carrie Bradshaw's New York City is just "a strange new world you will never visit except on TV"... and we remain shocked that it took anyone this long to figure that out. If she didn't password protect the video, we would now insert her lip-dubbed version of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," for irony's sake.
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Jen Carlson
Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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