This is why strategic relocation is important, smart people DO NOT mindlessly follow the masses and move to some city based on popularity and media promotion.
Strategic relocation requires turning off your TV and researching areas based on geography in state by state topography maps, calculating distances of commuting between nearby cities and towns, finding locations near natural reservoirs of water, making sure wherever you move is not prone to natural disasters like wildfires or flooding, keeping distance from large rivers and swamps.
People who mindlessly move from one failed shithole city to another city are always going to end up creating another shithole because the corruption and hive mind stupidity follows.