[C19fan]

I am not sure if you ever been to NYC, one is talking about Manhattan specifically, but one just walks out the door and feels the energy of the place and have access to world class cultural amenities. F. Scott Fitzgerald in the "Great Gatsby" captured this perfectly:

the city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.

[MasterGunner01]

Yes, I've been to NYC — once. I remember it before Rudy Giuliani cleaned up the dump. I remember Times Square, complete with pimps, girly boys, outright weirdos, hookers, peep shows, and other marvels of advanced civilization. I remember New Yorkers as rude, pushy, obnoxious, and self-absorbed people who thought the whole world outside of NYC was some foreign country. I never wanted to go back, ever.