"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." --Samuel Johnson

and douglas adams's beautiful take-off on the quote:

Ursa Minor Beta is, some say, one of the most appalling places in the known Universe.

Although it is excruciatingly rich, horrifyingly sunny and more full of wonderfully exciting people than a pomegranate is of pips, it can hardly be insignificant that when a recent edition of Playbeing magazine headlined an article with the words "When you are tired of Ursa Minor Beta you are tired of life", the suicide rate quadrupled overnight.

(from "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe")

That's hilarious, its exactly the attitude in NYC.

"The truly educated man can never be bored" Arthur C. Clark, long before social media was invented.

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding." - John Updike

I'm from Wisconsin and I don't think there's much there. But perhaps that's exactly why you went?

I think it is. The trees are exactly the right height. I'm kidding :) There is a lot here, just not people, which is why I came. I wanted more trees, more rivers to canoe, more lakes to relax by. You can find that in upstate NY, too, but I already had family and friends back here, so upstate was out.