At one point I traveled 11 states, for 35 years I was in outside sales, sales management and/or store planning. I’ve been to many large cities. Knew a number of them well. I’ll take flyover country over that every time.
From PA, I grew-up in ‘flyover country’. York is a tier-3 city, but the downtown is 10-12 miles away; it’s the residential sprawl that I hate, since I moved here, 29 yrs ago. My former nursery/garden center/landscape contracting business was on 20ac in the country. I miss it every day, since I retired and sold the property.