wow, a lot of NY'ers here! I lived abroad, a few places in the US but NY was always home base until....last year.
You can take a guy out a NY but you can't take NY out lol.
To this day--and this has been forever--I have no problem whatsoever with remote rural areas, small unsuburbanised rural cities or Midtown, but can't take the burbs or awful provincial cities like Cleveland or Atlanta or Houston!
No problem with Cheyenne or Ogalallah at all, but Fort Collins, the Northeast burbs, a big smear like SoCal??? No way in Hell.