re: America’s next great city

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“lol why are they doing this Wichita sucks.

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Wichita has potential but locals hate the city so fricking much (I wish I was lying) it’ll keep it from being great. Every time anything good happens (see our new minor league stadium/team) people do nothing but shite all over it. They’re just so locked into “oh this is the way it’s always been” or “lol why are they doing this Wichita sucks. It’s gonna leave/die anyway.” Quite frustrating.

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That sounds frustrating, but good to know. We are leaving Boise (mainly because of the wage to housing costs discrepancy) and have been looking at new cities.
My wife can take her job to within a 3 hour radius of any company hub. That gave us about 80 metros to look at.

I've done hours of research on these metros just based on statistics to whittle it down. Housing prices, climate, crime, property tax, and median accountant salary were big factors we have considered. From there I eliminated areas if the violent crime was too high, median housing price too far out of whack relative to wages, etc.

I've now got a top 10 and Wichita made the top, surprising enough. It seems like a very solid city. I understand locals who have never been anywhere else maybe thinking the grass is greener (happens here in Boise as well), but the reality is that a solid city with no very significant flaws is tough to come by.

Since this thread is about the next big cities, I'll at least list the 10 cities in no particular order.

Topeka, KS
Columbus, OH
Wichita, KS
Greensboro, NC
Akron, OH
Jacksonville, FL
Fort Wayne, IN
Winston-Salem, NC
Columbus, GA
Chattanooga, TN

Again, we were limited based on where we could go, and this is based on what my wife and I are looking for (nothing extravagant, not an on fire rental market). None of these cities are going to set the country ablaze, but they all look very promising. Obviously they also have pitfalls.