I have a love/hate relationship with the city I live in.
I like it because it's reasonably compact, has hills, is by the sea, has lots of great eateries, some culture.
It has horrid architecture in parts, and it suffers from scrawling buildings in the suburbs. It's only just bearable because the number of inhabitants is low - ~ 150,000, so even on foot I could probably make it from one end of town to the other within 2.5 hours.