It was once one of the nicest richest cities in America, and it has some of the best cultural institutions in the country as a result. It has every major sports franchise. It has some great architecture. It’s extremely affordable. The food is much better than comparable midwestern cities.
There’s a reason it’s so affordable. Jobs are not plentiful. The weather is terrible. Infrastructure is lackluster. It’s somehow a city of townies, not somewhere like SFBA/NYC that’s full of people that have big goals and ambitions and worldly experiences. Good and bad.
It does really seem like a city on the rise. At least when I was there last. They’re really investing in themselves, but the population has a really gloomy self image that honestly got me down.