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What major city has the atmosphere of low tension and stress with the positives of living there overwhelming the hassles of living there. A city with NO high housing prices, clogged up traffic, overcrowding, etc.
-Cincinnati
-Cleveland
-Columbus
-Indianapolis
-Milwaukee
-Minneapolis (albeit housing is a bit expensive)
-Pittsburgh
-Salt Lake City
-San Antonio
^ These cities, generally speaking, have minimal traffic congestion issues; a relatively affordable and attainable cost-of-living for the middle-class; easy access to cultural and recreational opportunities without crowding; etc.
No city is without an Achilles Heel, though. I chose Pittsburgh after tiring of the Northern Virginia stressful "rat race" because, to be quite frank, so many OTHER people had left Pittsburgh over the decades due to a formerly bleak economy that it had "right-sized" itself and still had all of the benefits of a huge city while reinventing itself as a medium-sized city. Pittsburgh's rents are on the rise, though, as we've now been "discovered" on the national radar, so I'd suspect Cincinnati, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Buffalo all stand a shot of being the next "up-and-comer".
Hawaii tends to have higher food prices than other states, for example, because so much of the food Hawaiians consume has to be shipped across the ocean. In addition, some have called the amount of money people are willing to pay to live in Hawaii "the price of paradise" — a book of that title penned 20 years ago discussed this problem, and the state has remained expensive since then. That may help explain why prices in Honolulu are higher than in any other metro area. The BEA also put out a list of the most expensive metropolitan areas in the nation, and urban Honolulu takes the prize as the most expensive metro area in the nation.
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