I've never been to Brooklyn, but my son lives there and LOVES it. I also have ancestors who immigrated to this country, lived in the Bronx and finally did well enough to get out and move out to the "country" like Yonkers (also in NY). The next generation was really adventurous and moved to Connecticut! None of them went to the south (although some of the older ones are now moving to Florida). Some relatives moved from the west to the northeast. Hey, maybe there's a northern gene, and people who have it don't sing about it, but just quietly know what they like best... Maybe it's a superiority complex. Maybe the northern culture is not a sing-about-your-home kind of culture. Maybe we're just weird.