Greener Pastures

For decades, the rhetorical question has been raised, “Is there life outside of the large global agencies?” Or, along the same lines, “Is there life outside of New York?” It’s a query that’s usually muttered around that proverbial water cooler after a massive agency layoff or a particularly tedious commute on a sweltering, jam-packed train. And, until recently, it never really required an answer since it was self-evident that except for a few anomalies that we all know and lust to work at, the small shops outside of big cities were also-rans.