I do like where I live ...

Feeling "at home" where you live is most probably one of the most rewarding feeling one can get. For you it is New England and for me, well, Old England but...

...I have been uprooted as a child and right now, home is where I live but the longer I live away from my childhood memories, the more I seem to miss the one thing or the other.

One starts comparing the old with the new. The grass is always greener on the other side. I miss what I thought was better in my childhood.

I believe that while being uprooted can leave space for new experiences, the older you get when you are uprooted, the more difficult it becomes to get adjusted to your new environment. Also, the way you are being uprooted is a determining factor whether you can ever find happiness in a new place or not.

I think in particular of all those people that had to flee a conflict zone for the sake of survival. Some might never be at home anywhere anymore because too many memories are binding them to their old home that they may never see again.

I love where I live. It's where most of my family and friends are located and it is a real home as opposed to just somewhere to live. The girls' schooling and my wife's neurodiversity make it impossible to move in the short to medium term anyhow, but I like to think we would choose to live here regardless.

A little less rain would make it perfect! ☔🌈

It’s nice to live in a time when people can choose such things. My wife and I are from the mid-Atlantic area and that’s where we will stay because our families are mostly here, but it’s all relatively mild weather and we are two hours from the ocean or mountains and a major airport is twenty minutes away and Amtrak is 15 minutes away. I also love the history of the region. There is no scarcity of medical professionals (when we lived in the Midwest this was a problem). Also, there are more days of sunshine per year than in many parts of the country which is rather important to my cheeriness — which is why I’d be depressed living anywhere near the Great Lakes.

Having said that, my kids love their neck of the woods —one in the Hudson River valley of New York and one on the Gulf Coast of Florida. And my daughter adored western Montana — it is an outdoor lovers paradise.

Climate is important, to me at least. Apart from the job it's a big part of why we decided to stay in Norway. But even more important is that things work, that there be little friction between state and person. Norway scores high there too, again for me.

I spent the first thirty years of my life in the South of England and until I left I couldn't really imagine living anywhere else. But that wasn't because where I lived was better or better suited me, I simply didn't know anywhere else that was better for me. I tried a long winter holiday 'back home' in the UK a couple of years ago and fled back to actual home after only six weeks, couldn't take the UK winter climate any more!

But now I've written all that (have you got this far?) I realize that of course the reason I stay here could well be the same as the reason I stayed in the South of England: it's that I just don't know of anywhere better for me not that such a place doesn't exist.

So I probably, at age seventy, won't move again. Not from country to country, not even out of the village. But I will spend a lot of time in the UK on long summer holidays because of this:

I can't complain too much about here; I mean, sure, financially I'd probably be better abroad but things that I take for granted here wouldn't be as straightforward or guaranteed. Also from a purely geographic/climatic/"touristic" POV I'm in the golden spot. I have the sea one road crossing away, and cities, countryside, hills, hot springs and even mountains all within a 2h drive.

I live in Louisiana, north of New Orleans. I like it enough. It’s got an interesting environment and unique culture.
But if I could move anywhere in the US, I’d go someplace with better beach access. Yeah, I could go to Lake Pontchartrain, that’s pretty big, and there is the whole gulf coast. But it’s not the same as being ocean side. So maybe California?

Alternatively, ive driven through the desert at night and it was beautiful. I might like Nevada or something.

I do not love where I live, because there are too many people and too many cars, inadequate roads and public transit, and high rents.

But every major city is like that. So I need an exurban life. Even semi-rural. But not entirely rural, since I want to be close enough to medical care and retail. I will give up transit in favor of adequate roads. Yet I confess I do not use transit now since I live and work on the end of two separate spokes of the transit wheel. I used to work in the center, so transit worked for me. Not now, I am a Beltway crawler.

I also do not like winter. Or humidity. I would like to try out a mild desert. Yet not Satan's Anvil (Lawrence of Arabia movie reference). The southwest is tricky, since it still has winter. And I worry about losing tree cover, unless it is pine. But those burn! Maybe I should try southern California. But people are strange and it is crowded, too. Ugh. And it burns.

North Carolina sounds interesting. Like Gondor of Middle Earth, "between the mountains and the sea". So is Maryland, where I am now, but NC is warmer and has better mountains and beaches.

No place with swamp ass, though.

I feel absolutely nothing about where I currently live. Unfortunately I bought a house so I should probably stay a while. I'd love to move back to where I grew up, but I don't want to deal with the winters. I'd love to live out in the desert someday.

By the way, do you remember the night we stayed up swapping gps coordinates of places that were important to us?

I like New England. Been many times. Loads of relatives on my dad’s side in Massachusetts. I like where I live but if I had the chance to pick up and move, I would and I would go and live in New Brunswick.

I would love to visit New England, but after seeing the snow, ice, and other winter weather in our northern states, I'll stick with our heat and occasional hurricane on the Gulf Coast.

When a lot of people consider moving to a different region they ignore all of the services / service related relationships they have. Mechanic, tire shop, dry cleaner, emergency plumber, etc. While many people don't really socialize with these people who they depend on, we do depend on them, and when they aren't available we really miss them

The people in Connecticut were much nicer to me than the ones in Florida, I can tell you that for sure. And I met all sorts of people in CT, before anyone tries to make it a race thing. It's an attitude/culture thing.

Did the pick up amd move thing sevetal times and always end up back in Maine. It's home for me.

That could not be any more of a flawed study. Yankees and Micks aren’t exactly known for throwing money around. They are famous for being downright parsimonious.

I know, I grew up there. Being of partial Scottish heritage I still have the first dollar I ever made

Family and friends have always kept me in my lovely part of the world. Otherwise I would’ve moved to Canada years ago.

I miss Connecticut. I took my life there for granted, big time.

I have been all over New England and it has a place in my heart. One day I will go back. Maybe.

I`ve been through Maine, NH and Vermont. Gorgeous country. But I digress, I love where I live and couldn`t think of living anywhere else.

In HS in NJ we had a kid move in from Boston. His name was Bob but he said it like Baab. So we called him Baab. Haha

Yaaayyy :) cali is 7 and ya i loved it there but i hada move to start fresh! Plus portland is more me

Been all over the USA. Like my birth state of California the best.

The name says it all. New "England". Its an attitude to helping others..😷

My wife and I called Virginia home for 53 years. My wife is originally from Rhode Island though. Then we retired and moved to Florida. We love the warmer weather here.

As a New Englander if I ever moved anywhere else it would be somewhere without snow. Part of the reason Im no longer on social media is because all of the NH groups that are absolutely filled with racists too.

I want to live more rural or by water where there are not many people

You mite want to choose a place with less taxes

That's the "most gullible" list.