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Anon notices the "grass is always greener" trope in movies
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"Stadtluft macht frei" but yes, everything else is spot on.
The background back then was, that citizens of towns weren't owned by anyone in the feudal system unlike people that lived outside the walls.
There were free peasants outside cities. The specific reason is a serf could run away to a city, and if he managed to stay long enough, he stopped being a serf and became a citizen.