One of my favorite humorists was S.J. Perelman, an avowed New Yorker. He made some money writing for the Marx Brothers and wrote about the experience in "Acres & Pains". So flushed, he followed other famous writers to Bucks County, Pa. purchasing an 83 acre property in the town of Erwinna, Pa. But he soon found that he lost the "New York idiom" and moved back to Manhattan. He said he was no fan of country life noting how "a corner delicatessen at dusk is more exciting than any rainbow!" Fast forward and the corner delis are disappearing.
tjs )NYT 7/28/19)
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