What do you see as being different in a LCOL area? Because honestly, if I lived in Manhattan , I’d Do the same boring things every day. Why pay a premium price for housing?
A few things, depending on specific circumstances.
The prior commenter said "very LCOL", so that will affect what is available and how you define that.
So let me define that as "where I live now" and "where I grew up" (a very LCOL place).
1. No jobs
2. Red county.
3. Trump lovers
4. Racist, almost 100% white
5. Homophobic (a HS classmate of mine is a state representative and is very vocal about being anti_LGBTQ)
6. 30 minute drive to ...anything. Grocery store, movie theater, hospital. I can live without the theater or hospital.
7. 45 min to 2 hour drive to a hospital where you can get cancer treatment, for example.
So that's just a start, but the things that I like to DO during most of my time are run, go to the gym (no gyms in my home town), have potlucks (I would probably not get along with people in my home town, which is why I left), very little access to ethnic food. There's a taco bell? But no really. I mostly cook at home, but it also means good luck finding ethnic groceries, like corn tortillas (I wish I was joking!)
Oh, and ticks.
Many Very LCOL places are also very rural. I don't like rural.