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. 
I've seen people mention Chicago, Milwaukee, Philly in previous posts. Never been myself so my comment isn't super helpful lol
But I'm also interested so bumping
I think milwaukee transit is pretty bad but its cool in some ways. proximity to chicago is neat. wisconsin is pretty republican tho so not good on womens or lgbt rights on the state level
Lol I'm from the Midwest/Rockies and I didn't even think about how large cities might just be a bus/train ride away.
yeah milwaukee to chicago is 90 mins by train and it runs a bunch of times per day. very reasonable