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I would say the Midwestern and Rust Belt cities, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, the really old money, Great Lakes cities.
I’d agree with this list of low(er) COL cities with big-city attributes. You can find great institutions of higher learning, museums, regular live theater and concerts (popular and high-brow), professional sports, ethnic diversity in varying degrees, and a variety of high-end dining. Chicago, especially, has really good public transit and plenty of unique local and high-end shopping.
Yeah, they all wrestle with typical problems of crime, homelessness, poverty, poor schools and the like. But those are big city attributes too.
Buffalo NY would fit most of the criteria of cheap (inexpensive COL) for a city, while at the same time having an impressive collection of downtown buildings, entertainment, dining, parks / recreation, museums, sports, education & universities, and good transportation.
Lol Philly citywide has a massive crime issue and is filled with trash, poverty, and bad schools. It's cheap for a reason, same in Chicago. Let Philly gentrify like NYC and prices will skyrocket
This is very hyperbolic. The city absolutely does have challenges with all of the above, but as with everything described on the Internet, it's always exaggerated.
Plenty of stable and livable neighborhoods in Philly that continue to be undervalued. Philly's fortunes are now inextricable linked to NYC, as that city becomes even more unaffordable (and increasingly, the DC metroplex), Philly will absolutely continue to see top in-migration from those areas.
Anyways, to answer the question, these affordable, not cheap cities have expensive city attributes:
Charleston
Houston
Atlanta
Dallas
Miami
Philadelphia
Nashville
Pittsburgh
Good list. Agreed.
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