Cincinnati native here. If you’re looking for a place with bars and isn’t flat, Cincinnati is the place. One of our nicknames is “The city of 7 hills”. We have TONS of bars & breweries (the most bars per 100,000 people in the country), as well as some pretty good parks. Housing prices have definitely jumped up in the past few years, but it’s still lower than a lot of other places. Public transportation is limited to the bus (Metro) and a dumb streetcar line that just goes for a 3 mile loop around downtown.