[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "You post responses that make me realize you didn't understand the point to which you are responding.
Population level has nothing to do with it."

Of course it does, because population follows employment -- the more jobs a city offers, the more people can live there.
So New York metropolitan is a huge city -- over 20 million, meaning wealth & jobs for all those people -- but that's still barely 6% of all Americans.
And those five cities you listed still include only 15% of Americans.
So most Americans, most jobs and wealth reside elsewhere than just the top few metropolitan centers.

Again, the problem is not geography, it's attitudes & behaviors regardless of where they happen to live.

[DiogenesLamp]

Instead of trying to understand my point, you just argue about irrelevant factors. This is why I don’t try very hard to persuade you about anything, it’s like i’m speaking a foreign language or something.