Shoshanna>my choice of New York as the origin of one of the characters in the short story I wrote...

The advice "write what you know" ... may be particularly apt in the case of your transplant-from-USA young male character. Unless you happen to know a lot about the reactions of a New York City lad occasioned by living a NYC life, then I'd recommend using the North Carolina background as your past Posts indicate you know about how young people live and learn there.
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