Fair enough you might know some locals who don’t go due to cost but that is your experience.
There will be loads of locals who don’t go for a host of reasons not related to cost. For example I don’t go to many CL home games because they’re on a ‘school night’ so I have parenting duties to see to. I also prefer to go to the CL away ones so I save my money for them.
The circumstances will be different for everyone.
What I can’t accept is this idea on this thread that City are pricing local / long term blues out ‘on purpose’ so they can replace them with wealthier non local JCLs. That’s just utter bollocks and would be an incredibly risky strategy deployed by a group of global business experts who have a tremendously good track record of being very good at business. It just doesn’t make sense.