The list of cities looks pretty random to me. In particular I am not seeing anything in the Northeast, New York, etc. In upstate I already have 30ms latency to AWS and Azure in Ohio without terrible tail latency.
We _tend_ to do better than AWS on latency to your apps, and from upstate New York you'd probably be connecting to New Jersey. I would be Virginia is quicker than Ohio for you most of the time too.
I discovered this earlier when I was playing Titanfall and noticed a much lower ping to their Azure data center in Ohio. I confirmed it by setting up my own host in Azure.
I was thinking of switching to Azure but pretty soon AWS opened us-east-2 and I moved my stuff there.
I just checked one of the performance tools we use a lot and it's <3ms to connect to fly.io New Jersey from NYC. It's not the best test because datacenter-to-datacenter behaves differently than consumer internet and NYC isn't upstate New York. If you feel like testing I'm curious what you see to https://flyio-ui.fly.dev
`ewr Parsippany, NJ (US)`
Someday I want to have a datacenter in San Carlos so we can have a SQL region.