There are actually New Yorkers who have lived their entire lives without ever having left the city - not even for a visit.”
That’s true in other places though. I have business phone contact with many people in Dallas who were born and raised there and never taken a vacation or been anywhere else. Not sure why. Seems rather boring. We have such a big wonderful country with lots to see and do.
Re the 16% of New Yorkers who are not OK with NYC, I swear they have all moved to Texas. Having been to NYC a few times, I can understand why they would want to leave. Big city life is not my cup of tea. Too many people, too much noise, too much concrete.
He also mentioned something else to me (but without explanation). He said that Phoenix is actually larger in area than the city of Los Angeles some years depending on the annexing of communities from year to year. But what he said that was interesting was that despite how large Phoenix is, from one corner to the city to the other everybody speaks the same dialect whereas in New York City (which is not spread out as much) there are sections of the city which has its own dialects and accents such as Brooklyn, Queeens...etc.
I have an idea why but I never mentioned it to him.
Also, when I said I love NYC I only mean to visit. I would never want to live there. Way too busy for me. One hour there seems like 24 hours because everything just happens to fast.
By the way, I’m trying to remember the name of the show where local High School students would compete with each other on local TV channels with academia questions. Anybody remember the name of that show? I remember they used to wear their graduation hats during the program. Anybody? I’m trying to remember the name.