> I don't know about "great place to be poor," While the statement makes some assumptions, I do think that NYC provides many more services and fallbacks for th

> I don't know about "great place to be poor," While the statement makes some assumptions, I do think that NYC provides many more services and fallbacks for the very poor that you don't find, say, in Appalachia. The linked article presents a quite bleak existence, but many of the problems it brings to light are that the services the city provides are of low quality, whereas there are so many places where those types of services don't exist at all. Rural poverty in America can be, from what I understand, far more persistent than most urban poverty.