Hey Jeff, I moved to NYC from Nashville!
Maybe it's just a consequence of being part of the NYC bike culture. My hipster bike has actually caught the eye of hot artsy hipster girls...
(or perhaps that's what I just say that to myself as I weep quietly...alone)
In truth I work at a bike shop here on the weekends, and am totally digging the dahon MU bikes. If they made the SL with the nexus 8 (or just ditched the extras off the XL), I would totally rock that.
If you search back on this forum a bit too, you'll see that I also bought my mother a helios 8 for mother's day.