I live in Denver now but did a bit of analysis off of census and economic data:

1. Move somewhere where college graduates choose to move (this is a proxy for restaurants, arts, high paying jobs)

2. Move somewhere where desired incoming levels have net population increases (immigration)

3. Move somewhere within the major metropolitan statistical areas with continuous growth (city populations are funny, MSA is more informative for my case)

4. Scrape user profile locations off multiple websites to determine "Online participation" as a proxy for more modern citizens

5. Scrape job sites by the keywords in my field, full time, non-contract