Like Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and countless other hellholes that the Urbanite loves nonetheless? The weather sucks, in different ways, pretty much everywhere other than the California coast. Most parts of the Mountain West are much more pleasant than most cities.
> no interesting things to do outside
Good point. A postage-stamp-sized overcrowded city park with human feces and needles is definitely preferable to actual nature.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but remote work aside, there are many second- and third-tier cities in the US that will pay a comfortable living wage relative to the cost of living and give you outdoor recreation options; pretty much just pick any population center that's not big enough to show up on the map when zoomed far out. Bonus points in areas deemed socially unacceptable to those living in coastal urban areas, because you get a discount on the number of people wanting to live in such places.
Unless your opinion is that it's a human right to be able to take free public transit 20 minutes to breathtaking mountains and 20 minutes the other way to pristine beaches and have it be 75 degrees and sunny every day, and everyone is paid a "living wage" no matter what they do?
Remote work is definitely a thing now.
> where the climate sucks
Like Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and countless other hellholes that the Urbanite loves nonetheless? The weather sucks, in different ways, pretty much everywhere other than the California coast. Most parts of the Mountain West are much more pleasant than most cities.
> no interesting things to do outside
Good point. A postage-stamp-sized overcrowded city park with human feces and needles is definitely preferable to actual nature.