I always looked down on them while living there, but the US is fortunate to have so many mid-sized cities. In Australia, and likely many other less populous cou

I always looked down on them while living there, but the US is fortunate to have so many mid-sized cities. In Australia, and likely many other less populous countries, people are being corralled into the sprawl of Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane because there are no jobs elsewhere. I have no desire to live in a ``dynamic world class city" whatsoever, but we need to be in striking distance of one for my wife's work. We'd probably consider Newcastle or Hobart or something otherwise. I hope someone else with more experience chimes in, but I hear London is egregious in this regard. I'm not sure how many people actually aspire to live there.