Find me a city!

dominican republic....you can dance batchata almost every evening and run on the beach every morning...

but you have to pay even for "normal" girls...

Charlotte

Raleigh

Jacksonville

Montgomery

Nashville

Dallas

Tampa

New Orleans

Huntsville

Louisville

Sounds awesome.

The caveat here is that I'm a white guy, so I don't have a great sense of how racist some of these countries are, that notwithstanding;

My first thought would be to check out the Balkans. Greece is obviously a pretty well-known quantity; you can likely get by on your budget in the cheaper parts of Athens or outside the city. The rest of the region is also beautiful and generally cheaper. I love Albania, and everyone I've met there has been incredibly helpful and friendly, but culturally it can be a little stranger, so it may be a little harder to meet women, and with less developed tourism comes fewer English speakers, though that won't stop them from doing their best to help or try to find a common language (in my experience there was a lot of listening to Italian and trying to understand it based on my high school Spanish, it didn't go great but worked to a degree). I haven't spent any time in or around Budapest, but I've heard great things about the nightlife scene there, so if that's more important you may want to do some research there as well.

Running isn't common, but outside of the occasional stray dog you'll be okay anywhere in the region. If you're picking your apartment based on proximity to parks or rivers you'll do well.

Stateside- Atlanta is the black tech capital, but I don't have a good sense of the rents. New Orleans would be a blast. "No more" has a pretty exhaustive list of solid big city bets. If you're okay with the dance class/ dance club ratio tilting toward classes, you'll probably do well in any of the popular mountain town/ retirement destinations; Flagstaff, Sedona, ABQ, Santa Fe. Small to midsized cities across the US may not make your list, but they are probably a good bang for your buck option- any southern city with a medium to large college will hit all of your criteria.

Good luck, I look forward to seeing an update.

Aside from being single, do you have any family considerations?

Keep it coming!!

To the question regarding family considerations, no, I actually don't believe in marriage and monogamy (have tried it several times, didn't work for me). It is either serial monogamy or open relationship that works for me. But who knows, I might change my mind (for example, at 25, I was sure I will have a wife and kids before I turn 30).

About some of the proposals, Greece sounds interesting, but no way Athens. Athens is a dump. I was actually there a couple of weeks ago, and apart from the good food and weather, I didn't like it at all. On the other hand, the islands (Rhodos, Creta, etc) are really pretty, but I don't think they are that cheap (I was there about 10 years back, even then they were not that cheap)...and too many tourists, mostly teenage/early twenties. But maybe things have changed by now, I should check.

Italy, right now, is being run by an alt right government at the moment, and lots of refugee crisis (or at least the media paints is that way), so won't be an a country I will consider...

Berlin is pretty awesome and inexpensive. Great nightlife/social scene. Everyone knows English. Short train ride from Potsdam for all the trails and beautiful running you desire. Could potentially be even cheaper to live in Potsdam. Probably a bit colder than you want but who cares, it's a nice climate.

Sofia Bulgaria would also be easily in your budget if you're looking to spend less and is a cool, young city with plenty to do. Bulgarian women are very good looking. Most people under 40 speak English.

I hear great things about Lisbon and it's definitely warmer than the above - not sure about costs though.

I just got back from Barcelona area. tons of road cyclists and runners. super cheap. great weather.

I have never been to Portugal, but I have only heard amazing things. Super DUPER cheap.

Even before I read that last guy's comment about Barcelona, I was gonna mention Barcelona.

Ok, Barcelona and Lisbon seem to be good candidates. I will start checking on those. Never been to Bulgaria, but I have a friend of a friend from Sofia, so can ask about it.

Thanks a lot for the recommendations so far!

The answer is Krakow, Poland.

You can thank me later.