Smallest big city with the resources you need (minus our biggest fail. Fort Pitt & Squirrel hill tunnels) Having taken over 1k flights and been to almost every big city in the US. Pittsburgh is still best balance of fun/cost to live/ability to travel - at least if you live on the west side of the tunnels and don’t have to commute downtown. My commute to other states in a plane often took the same amount of time it would have to drive/park/walk to pretty much anywhere downtown.