"In a situation this different, either you get used to it or you don't."

He's seen his share of people who couldn't adjust. Not here, of course--these modern and civilized Starfleet people don't seem to allow individual failure--but in New York. People who came to the big city, or to a new country, in search of a better life. People unprepared for what they'd find there, people who end up chewed up and spit out in one way or another.

He's a survivor. He'll manage, eventually.

"I just wish there were more to do."