Chicago is a world class city and strong jobs, transportation, and investment opportunities that has been under attack from investors and the government for the past year and its caused things to slow down. 1.

Also, you can review local news and look at the City/County plans and meetings over the last few years and see what’s happening in terms of transportation, developments, schools, etc.

Further south but close to public transportation.

Nashville has auto, healthcare, tech, logistics (Amazon logistics hub), transportation, education (over 8 universities) as well as tourism and music.  

For example, on a typical persons budget, the biggest cost expenditures are housing, transportation, and food. 

We have the infrastructure, and one of the best city transportation in the country today.

@Kris Wong  I find Austin unlikely unless the company is trying to get the city to commit to major improvements to the airport, and transportation in general.They seem to lose on several of the major factors.Dallas has a much better airport, is much more culturally diverse, has a much bigger potential work force, has many more related companies to name a few.All of those things were mentioned as requirements by Amazon.   

They begged me not to have a security deposit or to get it from the previous owner, give them til dec for rent to go up instead of nov and to work with them on the sept 1 rent because he had a job but no transportation and needed to fix his car. 

With the expansion of colleges and public transportation to the area there is a ton of new development in the downtown/Hilltop area as well as other parts of the area.As far as what path to take, I think that really depends on what your goals are.

The average American spends half of their income on two things: 17% on transportation and 33% on housing.