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One of the biggest reasons I left the US was because I wanted:

* A decent paying job in tech

* In a neighborhood where I could walk to do things with my friends

* But my friends didn't all have astronomical salaries

* I could ride a bike without getting screamed at

* My child could ride her bike to school without getting run over by a car

* (Unrelated but while I'm at it) - I could take a true vacation or weekend and nobody would dream of asking me how they reach me on said vacation.

I don't know of a single place in the US that meets these criteria. At one point I might have said Portland but the nicer areas there are getting very, very expensive.

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Ditto. I just moved from the Bay Area to Lausanne for many of the same reasons (except the vacations: still working for the same awesome employer).

Would love to hear about your experience moving. Do you speak French (or German?) Have been contemplating the continent as Dublin gets very expensive.

I realize this counters my own statement (after all Dublin IE has some of the same problems as the bay wrt housing) but there are still cities in Europe offering what I stated.

Amsterdam meets all of those requirements. I can't recommend Amsterdam highly enough, I'm so incredibly happy here and life is so much easier.

It's really pretty shockingly easy to move here as a US expat too. I'd be happy to talk to people about how to do it (or if you want to work at Apollo Agriculture we can really just do it all for you.)

Can I ask what such city you found?

I'm guessing it's in Europe.

To be completely honest, the city I'm in now doesn't meet those criteria as well as I'd like, but I'm currently in Dublin.

It falls flat on housing, though, mostly because rents and buying costs are up 80% or so in the last few years. When I moved here it was quite affordable.

It also fails badly on:

* My child could ride her bike to school without getting run over by a car

But I'm in the Dublin Cycling Campaign and pushing to make that better.

If I were moving _now_ I'd be looking closely at Utrecht. Another person mentioned Lausanne which I admit has me a bit envious too; looks to be quite reasonable https://www.immoscout24.ch/en/flat/rent/city-lausanne

As mentioned in another comment, Amsterdam actually checks all the boxes.

I live in Eastern WA/Northern ID and have all of that.

Where? Would love to hear more.

Sorry for the late response.

I live in near the Spokane/CDA region. Spokane is the major city, an hour from where I live, as I live in a rural area. Boise is also nice and would offer the same.

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