The passage discusses a conversation between James and Luisa about where they were born and have lived. James was born in England while Luisa was born in Jamaica, though she lived in England for two years as a teen. While James has not visited Jamaica, he lived in New York City three years ago, finding it beautiful but crowded. Luisa and her cousins visited New York last year and she enjoyed the museums and tourist attractions as well as nightclubs, seeing it as a cosmopolitan city.