Why are so many TV shows set in Seattle?... Or what is the most popular place to set TV?

[SydneySage]

Grey's anatomy
Frasier
Van helsing...

Ok. I know that's only 3, but it felt like more when I decided to post this thread

Surely NYC
Friends
SATC
Brooklyn 911
Gossip Girl
Lucifer

New York ( How I met your mother, as well as the others above)
LA

Here's the reason for Frasier:
but the producers set the new show as far from Boston as possible to prevent NBC from demanding that other characters from the old show make guest appearances on the new showw^ during its first season. After first choosing Denverr^, Angell, Casey, and Lee changed the location to Seattle after Colorado passed a laww^ that prevented municipalities from enacting anti-discrimination laws protecting gay, lesbian, or bisexual people.^

Friends wasn't filmed in New York though, was it?

Friends, It’s set in NY though. OP is about where shows are set