Take a look at the top 100 places to live. This is a great place to start your hunt, you can exclude some obvious cities and do some additional research for cit

Take a look at the top 100 places to live. This is a great place to start your hunt, you can exclude some obvious cities and do some additional research for cities that sound interesting. Anything East of the Mississippi is very easy to travel around in, you can plan a road trip vacation and visit visit all the cities that caught your interest. http://livability.com/best-places/top-100/2015?page=1 http://livability.com/best-places/top-100/2015?page=1 I can vouch for #13 and #96 both being great places and pretty affordable, however Im not sure how strong the free lancer scene is. #13 is a little higher on the arts scale, but #96 is Beer City USA... Cant beat that