The city and the rest of the state are having two different conversations

Something I notice constantly on this site and it took me a while to name it. In the city the complaints are about too much: too many places, too much noise, too much of everything within four blocks. Then I scroll to a thread from someone upstate and the complaint is the exact opposite, that there is nothing within an hour and no sign of anything coming. Both of those are real and they produce completely different opinions about whether any of this is working. I think we sometimes argue past each other because we assume the other person is looking at the same landscape we are. I am not sure what to do about it other than say where you are posting from. It changes how I read everything else you write, in a good way.