[I] think Real World Brooklyn makes a lot of sense. Whenever the subject of where I live has come up during my travels, I’ve always been surprised at the reaction. Among the European and Australian set, Brooklyn seems to carry a certain mystique about it. They know Manhattan—there’s nothing ambiguous there—but Brooklyn intrigues them as a both an historical and emergent hotbed of culture and counterculture.
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— My Brooklyn-based, world-traveling friend Neil, responding to presumptuous Real World: Brooklyn haters.