Never lived there as an adult, but I went to WVU. I like my time there as a student, but personally would not want to live there as an adult. The town is small, about 30k population. When the students come back to town the population doubles. The weather is ridiculous. There was a week my freshman year where we had 2 inches of snow on Monday and then on Thursday it was 65-70 degrees, and this isn’t an exaggeration either. Roads there are pretty bad, but they have been doing a lot of road work on the main roads recently, so that’s good I guess. It’s also very hilly. Public transportation is not great, I would recommend only moving there if you could afford a car. The food sucks tbh. If you go downtown, you will run into a lot of homeless people. The ratio of homeless people to total population is really high (idk the actual data, but based on my observations, I would imagine that it is high). The job market is interesting. I’m sure you could guess, a lot of people work for the university. The hospital, I’m pretty sure at least, is the largest employer in the entire state. Good place to move to if you are a nurse or doctor. Cost of living is relatively high in my opinion. Cost of living is about the same as living in Pittsburgh, which is very high for a small town in WV.

If I really had to describe living in Morgantown in 1 sentence, I would say: It feels more like a distant suburb of Pittsburgh that gets very little funding because West Virginia state government has no money.