What has happened to NYC over the last 25 years or so is what has kept me from returning to live there. I can handle two to three 2 week stays in the city, but afterwards, I slowly realize that everything I experience in the way of freedoms, quality of life, relatively sane taxes, etc are conspicuously absent in the Big Apple. Of course, I would love to move to the "country" in New York, but everything those folks experience in the way of government is mandated by the well heeled in Manhattan. Unless there's a drastic change in philosophy and governance, I'm afraid I'll never go home.
