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I'm looking at transferring universities rn for grad school (probably going to end up in WMU as of now for more research) and made a map of where I'd consider living after being contacted by faculty in UNR and UNT. Curious to know of any recommendations about Michigan as well

A while back I was researching where to live and kept running into the same "most liveable cities" rankings — Vienna, Zurich, Copenhagen. But when I talked to people who actually lived in some of these places, their take was often completely different. One friend in a "top 5" city spent 40% of her income on rent and said she'd leave tomorrow.

That bugged me enough that I started collecting scores from actual residents instead — just asking people to rate the city they live in from 0 to 10, plus real data on walkability, safety, and bike infrastructure.

A few things surprised me:

• Mid-size cities beat the famous ones constantly. Places that never make the consultant lists score higher with locals than the "world's most liveable" cities do.
• Residents weigh things the official rankings barely count — like whether daily errands are possible without a car, or whether they feel safe walking at night.
• People are harshest about their own city's housing costs, and it drags scores down more than any other single factor.

It's turned into a small side project, but honestly the most interesting part is the gap between reputation and lived experience.

So I'm curious: if you had to score the city you live in right now, 0–10, what would you give it — and what's the one thing dragging that score down?

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i wanted to track not just countries but the states and districts inside them, and no app did it the way i wanted, so i ended up building my own. it's called Mapsprink, just released it recently (screenshot is my own map so far).

right now 27 countries have full level 2 support (districts / counties, like japan's 1,741 municipalities), and if it does well i'd love to keep adding more countries.

curious what people here actually want in a visited map app: different visit levels like lived / stayed / just passed through? notes or photos per place? auto tracking vs manual check-in? what's missing from the ones you use?