One of the biggest reasons I left the US was because I wanted:
* A decent paying job in tech
* In a neighborhood where I could walk to do things with my friends
* But my friends didn't all have astronomical salaries
* I could ride a bike without getting screamed at
* My child could ride her bike to school without getting run over by a car
* (Unrelated but while I'm at it) - I could take a true vacation or weekend and nobody would dream of asking me how they reach me on said vacation.
I don't know of a single place in the US that meets these criteria. At one point I might have said Portland but the nicer areas there are getting very, very expensive.
* A decent paying job in tech
* In a neighborhood where I could walk to do things with my friends
* But my friends didn't all have astronomical salaries
* I could ride a bike without getting screamed at
* My child could ride her bike to school without getting run over by a car
* (Unrelated but while I'm at it) - I could take a true vacation or weekend and nobody would dream of asking me how they reach me on said vacation.
I don't know of a single place in the US that meets these criteria. At one point I might have said Portland but the nicer areas there are getting very, very expensive.