Honestly, Chicago (and more recently, Minnesota) has been on my list as places to consider moving to. I've never lived in an actual "city" city before but suburban Ohio is getting real fuckin old, and the bigoted, bible-thumping MAGA types are only getting more brazen as time goes on.
I don't know why we, as a species, are so determined to inhabit a place that functionally should not be inhabited (Deserts). Not like we don't have PLENTY of empty space in the USA.