Finished graduate school recently and I don’t understand the need to move directly into a city. I’d rather live outside of it and somewhat near it for a job there so I can see things beyond busy streets etc.
For a few of us mass transit is very much a good thing; a dear friend of mine needs wheelchair transport and just cannot afford her own van (they easily run over $20K and budget another couple grand for the special drivers license tests for hand control) but the city buses can take her.
The bounds of the city bus system and the special-transit system are literally the limits of where she can go without help.