Keep hating we love it 
Can see an I <3 NY shirt anywhere in the world, but yea your cities are so much superior. You guys have some really warped views of NYC, well aside from gun laws (which really are that bad) but its cool revel in your perceptions.
You can see Apple, Prius, HK and other similar products around the world too. I understand you are just entertaining yourself. However with your statement of the NY t-shirts, just remember that those t-shirts were likely outsold by Pet Rocks. Which means exactly nothing, it's just marketing.
I'm quite sure you have a million reasons to love NYC. I'm sure the majority of them are absolutely true, to you. Otherwise you'd have moved. However, folks have thousands of legitimate criticisms. Each one of them is absolutely true, to them. In my own mind, one attribute can make Centralia, PA vastly superior to NYC by a rational standard. For me, it happens to be the gun laws thing you dismiss. But the taxes, crime, cost of living, traffic, and crowds are all equally valid rational and objective metrics. Secondary concerns for me, but again, all reasonably valid.
Thought on the smell. NYC does smell. Not NEARLY as bad as NJ, I agree with ya. The air is more stale, tons of routine industrial pollutants, etc. It'll never compare to being way out in the middle of nowhere with trees and grassland as far as the eye can see. It's all in what you're used to, perhaps the air of the wilderness would mess with you the way concrete jungles mess with me.
With a few exemptions, no one here likely hates NYC. They dislike your fanboy comments. Same way they'd dislike Glock, HK, Prius, Mac, etc fanboy comments. It's not even you. It's the smug aura of a reasonable quality product (or concrete jungle) with an overpaid marketing staff being more than it is. A Glock or an HK is a perfectly acceptable polymer frame weapon, capable of reasonably accuracy and ergonomics. NYC is a perfectly acceptable concrete jungle, capable of many positive attributes and economics. You can scream that your car/gun/computer/jungle is the bestest ever made on the WHOLE WIDE world! The rest of us will smile kindly (hopefully, folks, remember, this is armed POLITE society), metaphorically pat you on the head, and move on with the perfect understanding that is a perfectly acceptable product of average quality.
