Nevada (also known as Nevadastyles on Instagram) is a hair artist from New York City who has lived a bicoastal lifestyle for the last half decade. For the majority of that time she has lived and worked in both New York City and Los Angeles, but her career as a hair artist has brought her all over the world. On this week’s episode of Silent Generation, she joins Nathan for a conversation about why she and other creatives aspire to live bicoastal lifestyles. They begin with a conversation about the pros and cons of New York City and Los Angeles, focusing on key geographic and cultural differences. Nathan then argues that the rise of bicoastal living represents the latest stage in the elite’s drift toward rootlessness and cosmopolitanism, a pattern described by Christopher Lasch in The Revolt of the Elites. The episode concludes with a discussion about whether having roots (and not being bicoastal) is a status symbol and the common traits shared by big city natives. 
 
Links:
@nevadastyles - Instagram Profile 
https://www.nevadaraffaele.com/
New Data Tool and Research Show Where People Move as Young Adults by 
Nathaniel Hendren, Sonya R. Porter and Ben Sprung-Keyser
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
The Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch
The messy, viral fight over America's fourth 'major' city by Tessa Mclean
What are the 4 major US cities? The internet can't decide. Vote for your picks by Melina Khan
 
Artwork:
New York 1971 by Hans-Peter Balfanz
CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Boyle Heights, 1979 by John Humble
 
Recorded on 11/19/2025

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