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Austin and Oakland are actually quite expensive. I would make my vote for Knoxville, TN. It is a little smaller than u were looking for, but the city proper pop. Is around 200,000. There is the University of TN in town which means a lot of places cater to broke college students. You can find $2 pints almost any night of the week along with $3 margaritas, half price appetizers and sushi, and animal hour at many places on the UT strip with 1$ beers between certain hours. It has a very dense and vibrant downtown where a lot of interesting ppl live. The weather is nice with 4 seasons for sure. It is very close to the mountains and national parks and like 4 hours from the beach. The unemployment rate is also low at 6.1%. I bought a fully renovated foreclosure near downtown for $30,000 too. Knoxvegas is the **** any way you look at it
I lived in Oakland CA once , and it's certainly not a BUDGET CITY.. , but it is one of the MOST UNDER RATED CITIES IN AMERICA.... and "Knoxville and Chattanoga could work" as Budget Cities
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