I've observed the same re: the culture difference in NYC and other American cities. New York got dense before the advent of the automobile, so generations (bot

I've observed the same re: the culture difference in NYC and other American cities. New York got dense before the advent of the automobile, so generations (both rich and poor) have lived there in apartments of varying quality. Other cities (like San Francisco) had some density but plenty of open land when cars became widespread, so the rich spread into the available land, and the poor stayed in (or immigrated to) the existing density. This is no longer the reality (it's basically rich people everywhere now) but the stigma of living in apartments remains and likely will until a generation or two has grown up in them.