I honestly can not ever imagine living in what I'm guessing you'd call a first tier city. The traffic, the people, just the non stop hassle of every day life w

I honestly can not ever imagine living in what I'm guessing you'd call a first tier city. The traffic, the people, just the non stop hassle of every day life would just totally grind me down. for me what you're calling First Tier is really just not something I would ever want to do, and I'd never consider that Tier One. You'd probably consider my home here a Third Tier city, but I have non of the drawbacks and all of the positives here. It's maybe not quite as dynamic, maybe that flywheel here is a bit smaller, but everything else is easier, it's livable and easier to live here. I don't make $200/k a year, but I don't need to make that, or anywhere near that to afford a life that would never exist for me elsewhere, with money left over to go visit those Tier 1 places a few times a year. So for me at least, family keeps me here more than anything, but if it didn't I'd still stick to 2nd or 3rd tier cities, life is so much easier here.