So what? Three years is plenty of time to form an opinion and thirty doesn’t necessarily make for a better opinion.

And your view is uninformed, because it’s anecdotal, one data point, based on your microcosm of experience, just like mine.

There’s not enough information here to generalize, but I still have real friends from having lived there, and I think it’s appropriate to offer a counterpoint, lest anyone interpret a one off comment as a truism.