Some cities fit a season better than a lifetime.

Some places are excellent for a particular stretch of life and poor for the rest of it. A city built for twenty-five can be exhausting at forty, and a quiet town can be a gift later and a cage earlier. The mismatch is about timing rather than quality.

Rather than asking whether a place is good, ask whether it fits the chapter you are in. That framing makes both staying and leaving less loaded, because neither one requires the place to have failed you.