my well-being is directly related to

• things within both walking and biking distance

• variety of things to do

• enough people to cultivate diverse social groups

• political things happening; orgs, activism, whatever

• cost of living versus job opportunities

• socially progressive enough to not feel constantly at risk as a minority

• pigs not overfunded and omnipresent.

never found a place that checks all these boxes but by and large suburbs and rural areas are out. college towns with 60k+ people aren't too bad sometimes. never lived in a big city proper, just the miserable soul-crushing sprawl near big cities.

thought about moving to milwaukee bc i've heard they have good political activism