Considering moving to Ventura 🤔
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Populations of cities I’ve lived in (or in metro areas thereof)
Ann Arbor: 114k
Austin: 950k
Ithaca: 31k <— cheapest, happiest
Rochester, NY 208k
Washington, DC 640k
Las Vegas: 640k
Seattle: 725k
Los Angeles: 4m
Hmm... small-town life allure going up again
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Really beginning to question why I should live in big cities, especially given that need to travel for consulting work is likely to crash long term due to covid. Proximity to good airports used to be a big factor for me. I don’t see that bouncing back anytime soon.
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I was a postdoc and lived in Newfield outside of Ithaca proper so outside of the bubble
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Re: Ithaca, do you think there was any causation between cheapest and happiest? Also what about the weather?
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The answer I found to this question was small goldilocks cities.
- 50k-150K (sweet spot of pop range)
- nature (mountains/beach/lake/forest etc)
- atleast moderately culture-rich
- per capita income > avg of the country
- openness/friendly to 'outsiders' (students/travelers etc)
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When blue America meets red America.
Maybe large population movement could produce purple America? Glimpse of hope out of a pandemic.
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You lived in Rochester? Any favorite restaurants or things to do? I’ll be attending for my PhD starting fall!
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I gave up on finding a place. However, I'm getting the itch to do it again. Multiple bases was a good idea, but times, they be a changin'
I would like to find a mostly sunny mild low humidity spot. But then there is the people factor. This is so much mental/emo puzzle fitting






