My social situation has collapsed so I'm basically gonna have to start over from scratch. I'd rather not do it in my truck-nuts anti-pedestrian small city with a ton of negative associations. I can kind of move anywhere but I don't have the energy to go somewhere random and hope for the best.
I'd love to live somewhere where I don't have to own a car. Big enough and with enough stuff to do so I can try to cast a wide net and grow some sort of social group before I die of loneliness. But also where I could afford like a studio apartment on the average entry level wage in the city.
Might be too much to ask with current housing prices.
Any suggestions?
Edit: thank you all! I'll start checking out jobs/apts in the cities mentioned. 
Long Beach ive been living without a car for a while despite being in the LA metro area. Its big enough to have big city stuff, small enough to have a local community and close enough to LA to fuck off there and do big city stuff.
Its the cheapest beach city in LA County and I can get to my job in DTLA in 30 min with one train ride and a 15 min walk.