>>1378602It all depends on the city IMO. Do you mean a city of 1 Million? 250K? I grew up in a city of about 250,000 (+250,000 if you count slightly rural areas nearby). Traffic was very manageable because of good infrastructure, cost of living moderate to low, great array of restaurants and bars (everything from top-tier seafood/steakhouses to family-run cheap neighboorhood burrito places), tons of public parks. You could travel about 10 minutes outside of the city and have access to tons of trails. This was in the pacific northwest, so lots of mountains, all 4 seasons, great outdoor opportunities.
Then I moved to Toronto for a while, which is a fucking urban hellscape. Terrible roads, way too many people, takes forever to drive anywhere, polluted, people were assholes, high cost of living, insane job competition. The Greater Toronto Area includes like 6 million.
Now live in a city of 140,000. Much more calm, good outdoor ops, not as many as my hometown. Honestly, people in big cities get exhausted by commuting. I find that in cities people sometimes get overwhelmed and just default to normie hobbies. You have to make an active effort to find cool shit.
