Ditto for me in Boston. I enter the city for two,and only two,reasons: medical care and the airport.Haven’t been to a professional sporting event..restaurant...etc,etc there in decades. The suburbs have everything I need or want except for the two things mentioned above.
That makes a lot sense; without its international airport and transit hub, Newark NJ is nothing. It has hospitals and schools, but other nearby safer areas have both; females in particular shun the schools.