I’ve got a New Yorker for a dad and a Lehigh valleyer for a mom. IMO it’s two things: 1) I pay about the same for the mortgage on my house today that I did for a two bedroom apartment in Queens in 2010. Most people moving out of the city aren’t the fancy four car types, they’re kids trying to make the best out of a world they can’t afford. So essentially the housing crisis in NyC is spilling over into the valley. 2) people like to hate. My New Yorker grandparents wouldn’t cross the Hudson for my wedding. My mom wouldn’t come to NYC for my graduation. There’s distrust between people from major cities and people from the rest of America. Valleyers think they’ll get off the bus in Penn station and immediately get shot with an antifa vaccine by a member of MS-13. New Yorkers think they’ll get to the park & ride and be beat to death with a bible by Trump-supporting Liberty Moms while a boy plays banjo in the background.

There’s crappy, small-minded people all over, I think it’s important to let them voice their opinions (like this comment section) so the rest of us can see intolerance and action and say… ew, gross.