From someone who has a strong culture & tech ecosystem balance bias: - Berlin: It's the perfect combination of cheap living costs and OKish (growing) tech comm

From someone who has a strong culture & tech ecosystem balance bias: - Berlin: It's the perfect combination of cheap living costs and OKish (growing) tech community - As mentioned pretty much everything from Paris to Kiev gets really dark & cold in winter, and not in a NY/Chicago cool way. - More and more people (especially British) move to Spain, mostly Barcelona. Not as good in terms of startup community as Berlin, but at least equally cheap & decent regarding arts. Personal bottom line if you want to spend the whole year in Europe: Barcelona in Winter, Berlin in summer, and using LCC fares to get to London for interesting meetups etc.