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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BiasForAction · M

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.

sarabee1995 · 31-35, F

@BiasForAction The mid-Atlantic certainly has it's charms. I absolutely loved the two years I spent mostly living on my boat in the Chesapeake.