What's your definition of a "social scene"? I have lived in both and have known many people who have lived in both and you are probably the only person I've ever met (myself included) who thinks this.
My idea of a social scene is people doing things with strangers such that they can be social outside their existing friend groups and make new friends.
It isn't two far-left white dudes in suits talking politics and their Hill jobs at a ground level bar in some brutalist monstrosity while ignoring everyone around them.
Yeah there are some fun and quirky things but a lot of that was hurt by COVID too.
What's your definition of a "social scene"? I have lived in both and have known many people who have lived in both and you are probably the only person I've ever met (myself included) who thinks this.