Well, I'm inclined to say it's because multiplicity is a festering cesspool of drama and in-fighting, but that's just me. (I left a year or so ago; perhaps it has since improved.)

Not in NYC, but we can take a bus down there and arrive in maybe five hours or so, and we have a friend on Long Island who we visit semi-regularly. So a regular group would be rough for us to make it to, but we could make it there every once in a while.

--Rogan