Living in One of World's Great Cities 

These amazing places are the furthest we've come from our humble beginnings. 
Can we have the best of both – tribal intimacy and creative urban stimulation?

(1)  Big Cities: Where It All Happens...
Round-the-clock 21st Century excitement – art, music, food, health care and employment: should city dwellers pity our slow moving country cousins?  Actually, researchers find that being raised in a big city doubles your odds of suffering from schizophrenia.  And urban living increases the chances of anxiety disorders by 21%, and of mood disorders by 39%. 

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(2)  Every Way of Life Is a Tradeoff, Right?
Forget that graduate degree and stay fit with your pedicab – it’s about lifestyle, eh?  10,000 years of civilization and our brains are still pretty much the same.  Newer parts of the brain are pretty good at judgment, given time to think, but the old brain rules when things get sticky.  Road rage, DWI, another breakup, all in on the office pool, who called the cops?  What's an anxious urban human to do? 

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(3)  What's Not Great About Denver, Denver?
Answers might run to traffic, no jobs that'll pay the rent, toxic bosses, potholes and graffiti  relationship problems, neighborhood crime… but what if they all combine into an ambient background noise you can't name but can't escape?   If that's our shared nerve-static, and we're all edgier as a result, who's to blame?  Didn't we build this place?