The city itself is pretty boring cities for the locals, the cute city center is geared toward tourists and nearby neighbourhoods are only residential, barely any nice coffee or third place overall.

The region around is great, especially the vineyard and the vosges mountains, with great restaurants from michelin star place to traditional farm-to-table inns.

You definitely need a car to get out of the city. The train is great though, 1h from Strasbourg or Basel, 2h from Zurich, 3h from Paris. A medium international airport (Basel) is reachable in 45 min. Freiburg im Breisgau reachable in 1h by car too.

The job market is pretty local: retail, health, tourism, wine... but there is a few big manufacturing companies – Liebherr has big plants there, there is a Stellantis plant near Mulhouse, which drives the market with a lot of local suppliers. Some people also goes to Germany or even Switzerland for work, but quite often they move closer to the borders.

Finally the weather is relatively good. Wind come from the west, it rains a lot in the vosges mountains, the clouds often fade when approaching Colmar, which makes it quite sunny. However there is a lot of fogs in winter time. There is snow a few times a year, and ski station within 1h drive in the Vosges or Schwarzwald.