Your experience may differ, but I find large cities to basically resemble a collection of small cities (neighborhoods) stuck together. I don't find myself leav

Your experience may differ, but I find large cities to basically resemble a collection of small cities (neighborhoods) stuck together. I don't find myself leaving my own neighborhood often because it's a pain to do so and my neighborhood has everything I need already. So unless you spend a lot of time doing cross city transit (which normally isn't quick and easy), the benefit of a large city over a small one is marginal imo.