Please tell us more! What city did you end up in?
I'm now somewhere else entirely, and while I don't want to say, I'll just say you'd find it surprising, because I certainly did. We like it, though, and there is a strong science-based economy with big growth in cloud and data, low crime, a highly educated population, and an amazing metro area.
Where we are, house prices have doubled since 2008. We are also trying to think out of the box in terms of where to live. Cheers!