Just on the Boston note, the city wears itself out pretty quickly. COVID is actually showing this strongly. Freedom Trail and related powered a downtown that otherwise died since March.

Of course it'll come back whenever it does, but the "real culture" of the areas that aren't total millennial, college, or medical resident playgrounds is up in Cambridge /Somerville. And those two towns are pretty small ultimately with rough commutes into the city.

Minneapolis and the like start to grow on me, as it's trading one smallish cultural area for another, but at a fraction of the cost.