C'mon.Never having left Texas or Hawaii...maybe.Never having left NYC...sorry,doesn't sound plausible.Except,maybe,for the disabled.
Jeff Cooper, the firearms instructor said that when he was in the military he dated a girl from Manhattan who had never been off the island.
I was in NYC a few months ago. Loved it! I met lots of people from there who loved it! They all wished they lived somewhere else, but they loved NYC.
Does just living in New York qualify? Gotta be fairly close. Should garner a person some dispensation.
Frankly, I've got nothing against New York, but I've never heard a group of people in my life sound more like they needed to convince themselves what a swell place they lived in.
These days, if your home is nice, you just shut up about it. Not New Yackers. Start spreadin' the manure news...
Gag me!
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Woody Allen once traveled to Washington to testify at some kind of Congressional hearing related to the movie industry (it may have been a legislative issue regarding copyright protection for black & white movies). According to the article I read, it was the first time he had left New York City in years.