I moved from Washington DC to Kansas City about 3 years ago. Took about a $10k/yr pay cut but the CoL change more than made up for it. I'm living in a newly built 3br/2.5bath house (that could easily expand to 5br/3.5 bath if I finished the basement) with nothing but woods behind me, and my mortgage payment is $300 less than my rent payment was for a shitty 1 bedroom apt in a dangerous part of DC.

There are 0 activities/hobbies I enjoy that I had access to in DC that I no longer have access to here, so the only difference in that category is it's a lot easier to access them here (I just take a short drive in minimal traffic and arrive to plentiful free parking as opposed to fighting traffic and struggling to find expensive parking or scheduling my day around public transportation)

The only thing I miss is the airport access, if I want to go anywhere international I'm probably going to have an extra layover flying from here, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.

Now based on the other posts in this tread I just need to find a wife who earns similar money so I can rock the DINK lifestyle and start really living large.