https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtlGzVZjf2k
There just isn't enough bricks, steel & concrete upstate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstate_New_York
Most of New_York_State is wilderness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_New_York_(state)
Most of the population prefers to live in NYC or the New_York_metropolitan_area, because that's where most of the people, employment, bricks, steel & concrete is.
