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My advice to you, would be to make a final list of cities you want to move to and then visit each for a few days to feel them out. You are going to continue to get different answers from different people with different experiences. The only way to get the right answer is to check them out for yourself!
That's definitely the plan! This thread is really just to help me figure out that list.
Austin and Nashville are tied, which intrigues me. Doesn’t Austin have a lot more people? Or is Nashville just much more heavily saturated with young single folks?
These are definitely the two I'm leaning towards. Atlanta and Denver seem to be the favorite write-ins, but I think I'd rather be in a smaller city that offers the same opportunities.
Smaller cities never have the same opportunities. More people, more jobs, more housing, etc. Big cities always have more opportunities, period.
Now if you prefer something with a smaller job pool and a smaller dating pool then sure
Austin and Nashville are tied, which intrigues me. Doesn’t Austin have a lot more people? Or is Nashville just much more heavily saturated with young single folks?
The Austin-Round Rock metro has about 2.3 million, Nashville-Murfreesboro has about 2.1 million. Not a significant difference in my mind.
The rest of those cities are more likely to have mostly women that went to college for their “Mrs” degrees and are married with children in their 20s.
That's definitely something I considered when putting this list together. My thought was that the higher-growth cities with influxes of out-of-towners are less likely to have people in that category.
Bigger means more potential opportunities? Yes. More realized opportunities? No.
Mexico City is pretty amazing for a single guy in their early 30s, but the difficulties of living in another country in regards to residency and then there's the issue of a different language though English is somewhat common in Mexico City. The OP works from home, so at least that's settled, but not so sure about the other issues.
Bigger means more potential opportunities? Yes. More realized opportunities? No.
Dating in large cities is pretty miserable, especially nowadays when these places are very transient and dating apps dominate the landscape. People always have it in the back of their minds they can get someone else easily (even if that's not true really, it is a plausible thought at least). I'd say the ideal situation is to be in a metro between 1.5-4 million people. Big enough to have plenty of choice, small enough that people are less likely to treat your horribly and think they'll never see you again.
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