New Yorkers are sadly stuck in the insane mentality that New York is actually a decent city. You could maybe make that argument 20 years ago, but New England and the west coast in general has decayed so rapidly that all the sane people have left to find suburbs, rural areas, or cities in red states/counties. Even the Giuliani New Yorkers are pining for a time everyone was treated like children because the lowest common denominator made it impossible to have civility otherwise.