“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.”
Thomas Jefferson
I few years back a girlfriend from Toronto came and spent a couple weeks with her daughter. They both thought it was creepy like living in a deserted town.
Thomas Jefferson nailed it.