You will never convince the people who believe this about New York water otherwise.
However it’s definitely true that pizzerias run originally by Italians from Southern Italy and Sicily have always produced incredible pizzas.
It’s absolutely true that New Jersey and Connecticut also have fantastic pizzerias.
It’s also true that some sections of the country can’t make a good pizza to save their lives.
I’m thinking New York has the best pizza and bagels because New York city had the first Italian pizzerias and had a huge jewish population.
Get the flour. From Italy/Sicily.
I got both pizza and Chinese food up in Nova Scotia one time on a trip up there, and they could neither make pizza nor Chinese food.
I did find out there was some weird license people have to buy from the government to serve Chinese food!
I have a wide range of both Pizza and Chinese food that I can manage to eat with a degree of enjoyment, but I could neither finish the Pizza OR the Chinese food...it was THAT bad.
And the Chinese food was REALLY expensive.