Having been born and raised in New York City but spending the last few decades in the land of corn and soybeans I have the following observations:
The rural vs urban divide is just as if not more so the source of the destructive polarization going on.
Does anybody where I currently live give a rats ass about the NYC subway system? Yet I explain to the indigenous population that my parents never had a drivers license. Their livelihoods and my upbringing depended on the mass transit system.
When I was growing up,I thought that corn grew in the A&P cause there was always plenty there. There was and is little appreciation of the agribusiness it requires in fly over country to feed the city folk.
So IMHO I believe it best to live in the sticks and visit the city.
Especially true if raising kids.
I have seen just as many GD shows in Alpine Valley as MSG. I loved both for different reasons.
Over the past 20+ years and hundreds of DSO shows, in the aggregate, I have no issue with what their tour schedule offered regarding location.
Sometimes the light shines on me, other times…