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Are we considering cost of living? If not, probably the cities in close vicinity to San Francisco for the weather, and the areas in and around New York for the public transportation. Being not quite in the thick of it gives you more room to breathe but they are easily reachable. DC is pretty good too if you can actually live inside it.

I live and have lived in the chicago metro my whole life. There are few places I could imagine moving to if I could go anywhere. Obviously im biased. One thing is I need good public transit. I never thought how good ours may or may not be till I went to a job interview in dc. I swear it was middle of the day and the trains ran like every 20 mins. In chicago they only run that unoften at like 2am. then like getting off and going on a buss you paid basically full fare. got a 25 cent discount or something. here you pay your fair and you can transfer twice outside the system (bus to diff bus or bus to train or train to bus. transfers train to train are always free and don't use a formal transfer). I think maybe only new york might have a system that is adequate enough for me in the us outside of chicago. add to this great bike lane infrastructure and the divy bike program and the extended train network with metra and its central location to amtrack plus two major airports. then like the lakefront, parks, forest preserves often around the rivers. its not bad for nature spaces for such a big city. then like you can find food from anywhere between the city and the suburbs. also four seasons which can be a plus or minus but is a plus for me. when you have nice weather in chicago you effing appreciate the heck out of it.

New York fucking city. There’s no goddamn place like it.

I’ve lived here most of my life, and I would never live anywhere else.

New York is life New York is love

Imperial Beach, California. Just for the weather though. COL is out of control, just like every other coastal city on the West Coast.

I chose to move to IB after having lived in 49/50 states.

Probably New York because of Zohran

Toronto

Minneapolis has to be up there.

Chicago

I was pleasantly surprised at Mobile, AL, of all places. Probably wouldn't want to live there, but it seemed better than the other US cities I've been to

Carmel, illinois

I like Texas. Probably anywhere in north Texas

I'm an hour away from New York City and because of that I get New York traffic but not gridlock. Mostly companies want to be in this radius and you get pretty fast delivery for things. I'm fortunate enough to be in an area that has the countryside only minutes away. Why are you asking? The only major downside is there's a lot of billionaire bunkers and the cost can be kind of out of control for certain things.

There is no such thing. What's better for one person will be worse for another. In general, the less developed an area is, the more affordable it is for the working class. However, that comes with the trade off of fewer services, self-reliance by necessity, not much to do, and lower education standards. The US is generally a capitalist hellscape for the lower classes. You have to be very realistic about whether you can afford to live in the nicer cities, and also realistic about the dangers and lower of quality of life if you choose to live in a poor area in an economically stratified city.

Beirut