Oh my goodness you’ve had some coffee haven’t you! I’m waiting for mine to take effect. I had a late breakfast due to actually arranging to eat with someone this morning. I had to sit there and wait for my brain to process those multisyllabic words.
So if I may ask yet another question to dispel my ignorance of this region, what is prompting this misanthropic hyperbole from so many commentators?
Most other remarks make it seem like a really interesting place to visit. I’ve not seen many cities. I’ve seen part of Tokyo in passing to meet a cousin. I was there only long enough to get an impression of incredible humidity and air pollution in the summer circa 1978.
I’ve seen New York City for a day, Washington DC and Baltimore several times, but only for part of a day each time. I saw Philadelphia a lot when I was 5 before my grandparents moved to the country. That’s all I can recall at the moment.
Oh yeah I had a few hours of wandering around Las Vegas back when they tried to make it more family friendly before giving that up as a lost cause.

I have also been to Los Angeles several times but that is so sprawling. It hardly feels like visiting a city in the way visiting other cities does.
Anyway, I’m very intrigued by this thread. I do wish I could travel more, but my time is now consumed with elder care and sadly my own heath is failing me at a rate then when I eventually have the time again, I won’t be physically up for much travel. So I love when a thread like this comes up and people chat about their cities and towns.