“And considering the tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of former OOTers who now – by choice – live in the NY area, we know what their answer is.”
This is false people are made to believe that they have to live in the NY metro area for schools and for shidduchim and they move here out of need not preference its like if theres a lot of small grocery stores and one humongous one people will say well you have to go to big shmuliks they have everything! and if you dont go people will brand you as a small timer so to fit in or just because your led to believe you cant live without 300 types of hummus you go but that does not mean you are happier there.
But btw the sriracha green onion fennel hummus is to die for!