Sigh.
You had to say “politics.”
Because it turns out that there’s a sweet, important message in: not everyone needs the same things out of life. And maybe especially in the pressures of small-town-ish closely-interlinked tribal existence are very bad for some people, and the greater individual atomized freedom of contemporary urbanity is exactly what they need. And, for that matter, let’s throw in the big city has a magic all its own and that can come in a cheery goodwill-towards-men holiday flavor, because city folk can actually be good people too. All that sounds like a good thematic backbone for a cute and cheesy holiday movie.
But, nope, the important reason to get out of your small town is…politics. That’s definitely what we want more of in our cultural narratives right at this moment.