Why love New York? consider it from a baseball perspective...
Lets say Boston has a generous million people (wikipedia lists the city as having ~600K). And lets say 100% are Red Sox fans (no straggling Braves fans left). If we set equal the number of Red Sox fans to the number of Yankees fans and Mets fans... then there are still 6 Million New Yorkers who are more interested in the Giants, Jets, Rangers, Islanders, Knicks, Cyclones... or going to the Met, AMNH, a musical, etc... etc...
The City is not for everyone... but there's a reason why it's known as 'The City', as well as why Mr. Sinatra didn't choose Poughkeepsie for the subject of his song (although it does rhyme with 'tipsy').
What
I would really like y'all to consider is - NEW YORK STATE is NOT New York CITY!
Where We live in New York STATE, the air is fresh and smells more like pine woods than old goats. The "rats" look like Chip and Dale, unless you're talking about the hockey team. Sports are the local high school, of course, and the inevitable little league, but just as popular and not age limited are kayaking, canoeing, hiking, back packing, fishing, hunting, skiing, snowshowing, swimming, boating, and just doing nothing.
Theater is shows at Proctors, or the Palace, Alive at 5 on the banks of the Hudson, and Capitol Rep. There are millions of acres in New York state that are NOT New York City. Did you know the Adirondack Park is larger than the largest National park in the United States? I sound like a travel bureau, but It just makes me

when people talk about New York City like that's all there is to New York!
Thank you, Jeff, for incorporating the
FE list into the website. I think it will be much easier for everybody (except you, of course) for it to be there.