Once we start ceding living in certain areas as “mistakes” all is lost. Because their areas only seem to grow and ours only seem to shrink BECAUSE OF THIS VERY LINE OF THINKING.
If your thought were true and correct, there would be no American Republic.
We exist simply because the where’s in Europe and Asia and all over were found to be so bad that people left and founded a new nation. The mistake is to continue to wallow in the unchangeable mud