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I mean it's not hard to figure out.

Here's an easy test. Think of the city you currently live in. Ask people where you live if they think this city you're living in is better than New York. They'll have a lot to say about it.

If you ask people in New York if the place you live is better than New York they'll say "Huh, where is that?"

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Such metric would just indicate that respondents are unaware of other cities, no? Majority of new yorkers never lived in good cities. I guess many just repeat 100 years old notion that NYC is the best city in the world and just never doubt it.

I mean… yeah; I think we agree there. That’s kinda my point: people here whom I know to claim New York City is the greatest city in the world don’t actually know a lot about the world.

I've literally been to 80+ countries and have spent time in every U.S. city of significant size. If you can't look at the world and figure out the obvious fact that New York is the greatest and most significant city that has existed since we climbed down out of the trees I'm not sure what's going to convince you.

Ehh not the best weather and they haven’t invented the trash can or dumpster yet. You can get good food everywhere these days. And as the years go by I am less and less interested in drinking till 4:30 am especially at todays bar prices.

how do you reconcile this theory with the existence of the Mets?

The quality of bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches is sufficiently high to offset the Mets.

The odds of you calling yourself "native new yorker" and having never actually lived anywhere else are virtually 100%

I can just ask everyone I know in New Orleans around me who moved from New York.

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