When my fiancé and I made the decision to move to Bend, Oregon last August, we had never visited the city before.
In pre-pandemic 2020, we visited Vancouver, Canada, Bellingham, Washington, and Portland, Oregon with the intention of moving to one of the three cities.

https://janaywright.medium.com/i-live-in-the-most-underrated-city-in-the-u-s-a458089f889a