Kay, I lived in NY for 45 years and now live in a small town in CO. The only thing I DO miss is the pizza, bagels, jewish deli's, etc!!! The taxes in NY were outrageous and where we lived was also becoming like NYC, which is why we moved. The traffic was horrendous and though my husband made much more money there, we had to spend it all for the privilege of sitting in traffic and putting up with some nasty people.
If CO could figure out how to make a decent pizza and bagel, this would be heaven on earth!