Agreed. Years ago my wife and I considered moving to my hometown, a medium sized city with affordable housing (at the time). There are a grand total of 2 emplo

Agreed. Years ago my wife and I considered moving to my hometown, a medium sized city with affordable housing (at the time). There are a grand total of 2 employers in her field in the whole city. It’s simply not possible to reliably grow her career there. In the end we stayed in our expensive city; in 4 years she got promoted twice, then had multiple competing offers for a new job when her employer went under. Career growth, top wages, and a plethora of jobs are available here. The only reason not to stay is because a decent condo starts at a million, but we got in at 3% interest rate so even that turned out okay.