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Medium-sized city far from either coast is obv the way to go here. There are still plenty of convenience stores and restaurants and sporting events and asian massage parlors, but the cost of living isn't ridiculous and the traffic is bearable too.

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I definitely disagree with this. In my experience medium-sized cities have lots of the drawbacks of bigger cities--pollution, traffic, beggars, etc.--with a sort of diluted version of the positives--decent but not great restaurant selection, public transportation, etc.

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Well, on second thought, "medium-sized" may not have been exactly what I meant. I'm not talking a city of like 50,000 because those pretty much all suck afaik. But most cities of around 500,000 have plenty of good restaurants that aren't Applebee's or Friday's or whatever.