Would you have wanted to live in Minas Ithil?

[Elmo]

Before Minas Ithil was emptied of its people and then taken over by the Nazgul who would have actually wanted to live there? I mean its not like you had no where better to go. You had the great capital Osgilliath, strong Minas Anor, the green fields of Lebennin, the fairest place in the entire realm just down the road in Ithilien so why would you to choose to live in a city where many people seemed to mysteriously vanish when they strayed into the mountains? Even without Sauron I'm sure the Mountains of Shadow merited their name literally and figuratively and in Minas Ithil you were surrounded by them. It just seems to have been a very depressing place to live. Do you think the people living there were serfs and were forced to by the lords of the city because that is the only reason I can think of for choosing to live there.