Folks in places like the NE have weird defense mechanisms to rationalize staying
I was at a party once and I told someone me n wifey were looking to move to NC. He was like "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.... YOU CANT DO THAT... THEY ARE WILD RACIST DOWN THERE.... THEY WILL KILL YOU"
Meanwhile the only place other than NY he has been is Arizona. So just to put that in context, NC is racist, but the city of Sean Bell, Abner Louima, Amadou Diallo and stop and frisk, and the other state where militias hunt and kill Latinos + laws were enacted to force anyone "brown" to show their "papers" at a moment's notice aren't
I remember another story on SOHH about two twins... one lived in Jersey the other moved down south... the one in Jersey looks a good 10-15 years older than the one that lived down south
Dont get me wrong, NYC is one of if not the greatest city in the world, but it's a terrible, terrible, terrible place to live for anyone who isn't white + wealthy.