I like St. Louis, but then I was from Florida originally and was glad to leave.
Compared to, say, Chicago, traffic is far lighter and less aggressive, parking is easy, there’s plenty of great places for food and culture and stuff, and it’s generally cheaper.
This site puts STL at $3170, but then they also have a $1250 rent for a 3BR apartment “outside city center.” But the mortgage on my 3BR house with a huge kitchen and big back yard is a little over $700 and is about a 10 minute drive to work. As always, I wonder how much of the metro area they are counting or if it’s literally just the city limits.
