Ask HN: Which cities outside the Bay Area would you move to?

I am a 35 year old software engineer currently living in San Francisco. I’ve lived here for the past 10 years and have loved each of those years. However I’ve reached a point where I would like to move to a more affordable city: one that allows me to lead a more balanced life than what I’m living today. I’ve seen occasional HN comments where a few folks have chimed in about alternate cities to the ones in the Bay Area. While I understand that the Bay area provides the most interesting and challenging tech jobs, I’m ready and willing to forgo all that at this point in my life. So, I’d like to ask folks for their insight about cities in the US/Canada that have a good set of tech opportunities and in their point of view affords them a high quality of life.