<p>“You always make this point, but I don’t think it is it correct. It has more to do with the fact that some people consider NYC to be the center of the universe. The ivies are within the NYC intellectual/geographic/cultural realm and comfort zone. Very simple, really. Nothing to do with travel or worldliness.”</p>
<p>No, it has <em>everything</em> to do with travel and worldliness. People who consider NYC to be the center of the universe are just as provincial as the people who say “why would I ever leave Kansas.” </p>
<p>My D, who goes to school in Boston, has met girls from Boston and NYC who seriously think that she must live in the midst of cornfields bevause she’s from suburban Chicago. They truly think that the “landscape” of suburban Boston must look soooo different from where she’s from. It’s all the same. I agree Manhattan is like nowhere else, but really, suburban Boston and suburban NYC and suburban Philly and suburban Baltimore and suburban Minneapolis and suburban Chicago and suburban St Louis and suburbsn Denver and suburban Atlanta and so on are pretty much the same. People who haven’t figured that out ARE provincial.</p>