Gentlemen such as this see not with their eyes that which is within their own backyard, rather they view the world from the narrow confines of their mind.
That is the truth! I am from upstate NY and my wife is from Long Island. We met in college in Buffalo. Upon my graduting from college a year after she did we immediatly moved to Raleigh NC. My mother in law and brother in law came to visit us a while after we moved. While driving around town (about 4 miles from our house) my brother in law spotted a field with cows in it. He proceeded to make fun of us for living in a "cow town." I pointed out to him that what he saw was part of a Vetrenary college. It made no difference to him. He kept making fun of us for living in "the country" and with "cows along the road." My mother in law finally spoke up a few hours later. "Marc, we got cows along the road back home too. Ever notice that farm on Jericho parkway?"
While it is not nice to say, many of the "natives" here in NC are absolute morons and uneducated boobs. Whenever a native asks me where I moved here from i reply "New York." Without fail they immediately ask me "what part of the city?"
Look you backwood, tobacco chewing, sister banging redneck hick, there is far more to NY than the fucking city! In fact, there is as much back wood redneck areas of NY as there are NC!