Thanks, cjd -- I stand corrected regarding Bloomberg's most recent political affiliation.
Not that it provides much comfort!
I fully realize that New York City residents believe their city to be the center of the universe; outside of which there is no life possible.
The identical love of home town was professed by the Jews of Egypt under Paro, the Jews of Spain prior to the Expulsion, the Jews of Warsaw during the 1930's, and the Jews of Berlin - some of whom refused to leave there even until the very last years of WWII.
All of whom used the identical rationalization for remaining in their cosmopolitan comforts.