Joe -“newbee: It all depends on one’s personal perspective of what they’d rather seek as their goal: a higher level of spiritual comfort (rabbonim, rebbes , tzadikim, yeshivos, butei medrashim, minyanim, shiurim, tzedaka orgs, chesed orgs, etc.”
The implication is false! I know people who lived OOT and became or were Frum, but eventually these same people became Frey living in Lakewood.