As someone who has spent time in the suburbs of western Massachusetts, and grew up in northern New Jersey ( just a couple minutes shy of New York City itself), the difference between the two environments were like 2 different worlds.

Background: I come from a middle/lower socioeconomic family and I spent nearly all of my life living in an urban city in NJ(the city I am from was ranked as one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world). Growing up, many of my friends were "hood" and "ghetto", and I was taught many red pill principles at a very young age. Since the early days of high school, many classmates were already having sex by the age of 14, some even at the age of 13. I even remember some of my wrestling teammates after practice randomly hitting on women on the street and forced me to go over and talk to a girl(who briefly became my girlfriend after). As a result, I got over my social anxiety at a young age. Anyways to cut to the chase, although living in an urban city definitely sucks( violence, high stress, etc.), there are hidden gems that living in an city has over living in the suburbs/rural area("betaville" in my eyes). For instance, when you live in a city:

  1. You are taught to survive and be street smart (i.e. knowing when and how to fight, times to go out an night, what areas to avoid, etc.)
  2. You develop your social skills (you MUST interact with a high volume of people everywhere you go)
  3. You develop abundance mentality (there are so many people in a city, where if you get rejected you are forced to have a IDGAF mentality because there are so many other people to meet).
  4. You realize the value of the working dollar and strive to become successful/driven ( my family is not well off, as I result I worked my ass of in high school and college and currently am in grad school, and while I do need deem myself to be successful yet, my drive academically came from my upbringing).

I'm sure there are many other gems from living in a city, but I'm too lazy to name more. However, the point is, is that all of the statements mentioned above are "alpha" traits. When I was living in the suburbs, many of my beta friends were thinking about marriage with the same girl they've been with since high school. They've never even hooked up with anyone else, which is laughable to me. In fact, my beta male friends would constantly ask me why I don't have a girlfriend ( trust issues, cheated on, know their games, etc.) and I tried explaining it to my blue pill friend that I don't believe in any of that and he just laughed lol. Also, my suburban friends were spoiled beyond belief, they would bitch and cry if things didn't go their way. I'm sure anyone who has ever lived in a city would agree with me here and my advice for someone looking to develop their game is to live in a city for at least a year.

TLDR: Live or experience living in a city, it teaches you invaluable red pill lessons.