That sounds like a very healthy outlook! And I hope you have luck, getting lucky
Yea, it is odd. I think some of it has to do with issues of race and class: both cities are more or less segregated into very poor areas, and then, areas with much more money, especially in DC; Baltimore has more of a mixture. And furries seem to be mainly middle-class, or so it seems. It would be curious to do a sociological survey of furry demographics in the US: Age, race, class, sex, sexual preference, &c, and then compare the to the population at large.