Don’t forget that the vast majority of real estate even in us so called blue states would opt to follow red state America if given the choice.
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, letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Sep. 23, 1800