If you ever read any books etc. on laying low the key rules are always not a big city, not not a small area either small area means that you are noticed right

If you ever read any books etc. on laying low the key rules are always not a big city, not not a small area either small area means that you are noticed right away by the locals, since they spend their days waiting for something out of the ordinary to happen. big cities you have surveillance and large media. you need mid sized besides, in the case of bin laden, there was far too much heat in the tribal areas with daily drone attacks and military incursions etc. for him to be hiding there. the big cities are full of CIA agents, so it was always going to be somewhere in between.