Don't want to rain on the parade, and I say this as a player with no liberty characters, who hates liberty, and who never goes there (My Cryer dips in to Colorado to say hello on Denver, and sadly I haven't worked out how to make new characters not be born in Pennsylvania, but that's really it), but it wont work. As I've said before, there are 50 people in New York because there are 50 people in New York.
There's a certain breed of player that cares for nothing beyond that. If you want to kill players easily, go to New York. If you want to write endless reams of **** about how you're the ghost of a homosexual robot alien with an outcast dad and a corsair mum, you go to New York. If you're new and you don't know wtf is going on, you go to New York.
It's a snowballing thing. People go there because that's where people are, because people go there. You COULD move it, but then it would just be somewhere else. The same retards would just flock there instead, and the problem would not go away.