I do like where I live ...

So when I hear things about New England and it's history and culture and people, I tend to pay attention.

Just recently, the peeps over at GoFundMe declared we New Englanders to be the most generous:

We occupy the top three positions on their per capita donations rankings, and four out of the top five, and six of the top ten.

Despite this love of where I'm from, my wife and I are discussing where we want to live the rest of our lives.

It's not a decision to be made immediately. I'm currently enrolled in another degree program so I couldn't move immediately anyway. And she has a successful accounting practice here.

But long term ... It's this where we want to call home? It's an open discussion.

Do you love where you live?

Would you ever pick up and move?

What would motivate such a decision?

Is climate a good enough reason?

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

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

sarabee1995 · 31-35, F

@whowasthatmaskedman I honestly don't know that our culture is directly derivative of Great Britain or the Puritans who founded the Plymoth Colony. There's been so many waves of immigration from various groups of Europeans and Africans in the four hundred years since.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@sarabee1995 I know its splitting hairs. But lets say the New England culture isnt so much more English, as less "Murican."😷

sarabee1995 · 31-35, F

@whowasthatmaskedman Oh for sure. Most of us in Massachusetts are proud to have had universal healthcare long before it was even a national discussion and having marriage equality before most of Canada. Our culture is distinct from most of America. We are not California and we are not Texas. We are different and most of us like it that way.