Metropolitan alienation explains both anti-city hatred and the popularity of extreme individualism there

Evidence

The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbor against the metropolis. But it is, indeed, also a reason why these preachers are so passionately loved in the metropolis and why they appear to the metropolitan man as the prophets and saviors of his most unsatisfied yearnings. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9963