I'm tired of living in my current city (KCMO) and really want to move somewhere else but I have no idea what sounds cool. I am lucky enough to be in a very in demand healthcare field that I can find a job in pretty much anywhere in the US sooooo what places have you enjoyed living in? Which ones suck and should be avoided?
Bay area CA is completely inhospitable to human life making less than 140k a year
I grew up here as part of the racial underclass making the treat factory run for the rich white liberals and the amount of gentrification has been fucking completely insane
like literally the entire Hispanic community I grew up with is gone. There's still a lot but the area is very quickly becoming nothing but incredibly wealthy people, and it's super alienating and isolating talking to anyone because my parents grew up waiting tables for less than minimium wage and then it's like "oh yeah I came here from Colorado, my dad was Olympic gold medalist decathlete who graduated from Stanford Summa Cum Laude and owns 12 tech companies making 600k a year, how about you?" or
"oh yeah my family is old money from India, now go mow my lawn wet"
was also born in the bay....what you're saying is very accurate. it's hard to interact with the city now and it feels kinda painful. the industrial supremacy of tech also makes the city seem more lost and gentrified than places like new york. the only black people i see are homeless, yelling at people on the bart, drugged out, etc. its incredibly depressing. its also extra insulting though because the tech west coast people always have to do weird infantile justifications of their souless pillaging of the city, giving endless lip service to "a great work/life balance"; "i can work remotely while im hiking" ; "why live fast when you can just slow down" and other phrases that just reveal how disconnected they are and how much theyre masking that disconnected as some simple life philosophy accessible to everyone.
I cant really think of any other city that is as down bad as SF. (i assume places like seattle have been gutted to and also present that tech supremacy thing but i dont really know that much about seattle)