......spot on...! many years ago, when we wisely left Noo Yawk State for the sunny South, we ran into an NYC transplant, whose biggest complaint was....”Geeez..youse can’t even find anywhere to get a good bagel down heah, ya know....”
....stay up north; don’t move south...we rubes still don’t know how to make good bagels, like, ya know...and we all carry guns...sometimes more than one at a time..and we know how to use them, too....!!!
Side bar comment ..... In SW Va 2 years now, out of New Yawk, and I learned how to make genuine, authentic, NYC Jewish deli bagels. I miss the Hudson Valley views and bagels but I am never going back.