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The answer to this is clearly old town squres, or smaller to mid-sized cities (ex: Madison, WI) that are both walkable and bikable.
With the above, you get best of both worlds. You can have a house with decent amount of space, yard, garage, etc. but can also go to grocery store, bars, restaurants, coffee shops, theaters, etc. without getting in your car.
Both the citycel and suburbanite posting earlier are coping. Pure city life sucks post 30. Things to do? lmao, the ONLY thing there is to do is overpriced bars and restaurants with occaisional things like street festivals which gets old fast (but are awesome when you are in your 20s). There is more to do in a Boulder, CO or a Grand Rapids MI than there is in NYC. Dont give me that shit about art shows and theater like you do that every month. Go someplace where you can do actual shit aka a garage to work in, rivers to swim/boat/fish in, ability to trail run, mountain bike, kayak, etc. Big cities, outside of Cali where you have the beach, suck. Great to sleep around in when you are 24, but if you are there at 30+ you are likely an overgrown manchild
Soulless suburbs arent much better. If you have to drive to go anywhere and all you eat at are at chain restaurants then you are basically living a bland consoomer life.
Smaller towns with mom and pop shops, outdoors, educated population, and low crime are the sweet spot.
