@sun look around for smaller cities with a lot of bike paths, check those out on satellite view, shop for a nice place within walking distance. I've lived in cities for years and years and hated it because I lived in a bad area, and I've lived in overall worse cities that I enjoyed more because at any time I could walk out the door and start skating/biking/walking through nature, over bridges, along waterways, dodging group bike riders, dodging women walking a large dog.