I visit NYC often to see family, and a business acquaintance is always amazed. He honestly thinks NYC is a warzone, with constant gunfire, random assaults, pollution, gangs, etc.
I have to tell him that crime in our Florida city is far worse than what happens in NYC. Some psychopath kills a BABY in our city about once a week. Random gunfire has interrupted public events several times in the past few years. One year there was a panic stampede because a firecracker went off, and people ran, because it's very possible it was gunfire. Things like that never happen in NYC.
BTW, this person also brags that he's never left the state in his entire life. Why would he? The rest of America is too dangerous. He's also an enthusiastic, unapologetic MAGA, and believes every word of their propaganda.