"Leaving Everywhere" is a piece of net art that spits out "break-up" letters with cities by citing randomly-selected data from the US Census Bureau. Made by Darius Kazemi, the letters are all essentially Mad Libs for arguing about cities, where Kazemi's algorithm fills in the blanks.

The letters are all structured more or less the same, expressing things loved about the city followed by its flaws, then some redeeming quality, a comment on racial demographics, and then sometimes, a Shakespeare quotation. This gives a deliciously arbitrary, and at times a bit unsettling, flavor to the data. 

Here's a prime example, to Boston:

Boston, it is time for us to part. In just a few weeks I'll be moving to Newark, New Jersey.

I'm going to miss things about this city for sure. The bakeries, the Belarusian restaurants, the convention centers. The Greek restaurants, the flower shops, the toll booths. My local communications equipment operator, Delaney. It is with a heavy heart that I leave here.

That said, something was rubbing me the wrong way about this place, so I decided to do a little research.

It turns out that there are 12,071 people with a GED. And it turns out that we have 8,628 people over 25 with no schooling at all here. I don't understand how anyone can deal with this situation.

To add insult to injury they closed one of my favorite photography labs.

I mean, look, I still love this place. Sometimes. You'd be surprised to hear that average value of an owner-occupied home is $371,000. This is pretty good.

Then there's the whole diversity issue. It turns out that mixed race folks make up 4.45% of the population. I sometimes don't even recognize this city anymore.

I'm reminded of these lines from Shakespeare:

Then happy I, that love and am belov'd,
Where I may not remove nor be remov'd.

But enough is enough. I'm out of here.