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How happy are you where you are?

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This question is primarily related to location.

How happy are you where you live now?
How happy are you compared to where you grew up?
How happy are you if you still live where you grew up?

Etcetera. If you care to elaborate, please do.

And if you care to comment how your happiness is or is not tied to your location whatsoever . . . please do.

:)
 
About the only reason I am happy with where I am, is because of housing cost. It doesn't take much to make it in Indiana.

I'd rather be further south and back down around the coast. I'd rather wear shorts and sandels all day everyday then have to put up with snow. Plus changing of the seasons especially into winter, just makes everyone depressed.

I've lived here most of my life except for a few times when I relocated to the mountains a few times. Do I like it here, not really. The mountain weather and air seem to be alot better, but with that comes no jobs. So everything has its pro's and cons.
 
I have been very conflicted about this lately. I live in northern Oregon, and have my entire life. It is extremely beautiful here. I love the outdoors and there are few places more spectacular to walk through than this one. We also have great summers - everything is lush and green, and it stays around 80 degrees with low humidity the whole time. The problem is it rains ALL FUCKING FALL/WINTER/SPRING! I am beyond fed up with the rain all the time, but then if I moved somewhere it doesn't rain I wouldn't like the landscape. And I don't want to move and abandon everything and everyone I've ever known...
 
I'm extremely happy where I am now and have been for the last 33 years. I moved here from the East Coast, well actually upstate NY. First saw Alaska on a refueling stop from Viet Nam and after seeing the mountains, vowed to come back. That opportunity happened just as I finished schooling and it has never been better.

The only thing I can say I miss (outside of family now and then) is the four long and distinct seasons. Other than that it has been perfect. Moving as I did across country leaving everything and everyone I knew behind was something I knew I would have to do. I knew I had to do it in order to be who I wanted to be and do it my way. I found growing up that family, family friends and your own personal friends develop a certain expectation of you and if you try to move out of the "box" they see for you, they actually try to push you back in. Well I knew I was more than their expectations as I was always underestimated.

Since being here, I have had a fantastic professional career and have earned a very good reputation. I own my home and am close to being totally debt free and have money in the bank. I have engaged in my personal passions for life in being able to get into the wilderness and experience a great deal of woodcraft. I have seen and done things that couldn't be done or seen elsewhere and it all has given me an appreciation of life and for beauty.

As for being back in the hometown area, no I would not have been happy there as it is too much hustle and bustle and far too much emphasis on status and getting ahead by nearly what ever means. At least now my family has admitted that I am the only one in the family who has accomplished everything he said he was going to do. (that wasn't easy for them)

Alaska has been a most wonderful adventure and it is not done yet and I hope not for many years yet. I live out away from any towns, own 10 acres and have all the wilderness and wildlife right outside my door. It is a life that suits me just fine, though at times it is hard as hell, but that is part of the adventure. I can still get up each morning and have my coffee while sitting on the back porch looking over the mountains and valley where I live and have moments of nearly being overwhelmed with the feelings of love and appreciation for the land and its beauty, and can thank God for the opportunity to enjoy it and partake of it.

Since the moment I stepped foot in it permanently 33 years ago, all it has said to me is, "you are home".
 
I'm very unhappy where I live. It's a nice place if you're straight, but I'm not. Society is very homophobic here. Plus my boyfriend isn't here with me.

When I lived in Montevideo it was better. Maybe because I had more money and I wasn't as attracted by guys as I'm now. And I didn't have a boyfriend of course.
 
I live in a college town not far from my hometown. My hometown is comforting to go back home to, but there was never really much to do there at all. Ann Arbor, on the other hands, was the place we all would drive to to hang out when we were in highs chool.

Now that I live her, the novelty has worn off and I've realized that downtown Ann Arbor really only has two main things to offer: eating and clothes shopping. The theatres only really show indie films, which is great, unless you want to see a mainstreamer. But really, Ann Arbor gets pretty boring.

I really hope to move to a bigger city, like Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco (which I've never been to), or Toronto. I love them, and I want to see if I'd still love them after living there as a resident as opposed to a guest/tourist.
 
I'm not so happy where I live now because I want to reunite with my bf.
I'm very happy where I live right now compared to the place I grew up.
I will not happt at all if I still live where I grew up~
 
ReZerection said:
About the only reason I am happy with where I am, is because of housing cost. It doesn't take much to make it in Indiana.

I'd rather be further south and back down around the coast. I'd rather wear shorts and sandels all day everyday then have to put up with snow. Plus changing of the seasons especially into winter, just makes everyone depressed.

I've lived here most of my life except for a few times when I relocated to the mountains a few times. Do I like it here, not really. The mountain weather and air seem to be alot better, but with that comes no jobs. So everything has its pro's and cons.
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I'll second the part about Indiana being cheap. The cost of living doesn't get much lower! I also grew up in Indiana. I will add that Indiana is a nice place to be from. In most places, it's quiet, peaceful, and safe. But it definitely isn't the most 'happenin' place on the planet. If you're lookin' for fun and excitement, this ain't the place. Indiana is also an archconservative, fire-engine red Republican state. This is one of those places where racism and homophobia is not so carefully hidden.

In fact, this is a place people leave, not come to. My three closest friends have all, one by one, moved out of state. I find myself now at a place where there's really nothing holding me here. So... I'm looking at my options.

Being a small town boy, I think it would be fun to live in a loft in a big city with a nice view of an impressive skyline.

Any suggestions???
 
I am not happy here. Seriously. I Have so much high expectation of places and then become dissappoint with the offerings.

I hope that the places I actually want to live in will be much more satisfying.
 
Born and raised in Oklahoma. I love this state. Always have always will.


this is where I was born and this is where I will be buried.


I am very happy.


Dirk
 
I love where I live...of course I would love to live in Paris but it can be Paris then
The Republic of Cambridge would do just fine.
 
I'm now living and working in London, maybe not for much longer. It's been tough sometimes but yes... I am very happy here. If I got the chance to stay longer I think I would. The rest of my family are back in the US but when I was growing up we moved around a lot so I don't really think of anywhere as 'home'..
 
secondmonkey said:
I have been very conflicted about this lately. I live in northern Oregon, and have my entire life. It is extremely beautiful here. I love the outdoors and there are few places more spectacular to walk through than this one. We also have great summers - everything is lush and green, and it stays around 80 degrees with low humidity the whole time. The problem is it rains ALL FUCKING FALL/WINTER/SPRING! I am beyond fed up with the rain all the time, but then if I moved somewhere it doesn't rain I wouldn't like the landscape. And I don't want to move and abandon everything and everyone I've ever known...
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You've said just what I was going to say about Portland (and the entire Northwest).

I like it here, I guess, because every time I move away I return within three years. That said, I'd prefer Hawaii. I loved the three years I spent there. It had all the "green" we have in Oregon, but with perpetual spring-time weather. The cleanest air and the constant scent of flowers.
 
I love where I live. Seattle is fabulous. I've said this in many posts. I have a love affair with my city. When I go away, as I come back into the city on I-5 I'm often close to tears, so glad to be home. I grew up in southern california and never liked it - too hot and too brown.
 
How happy are you where you live now?

Extremely. I love Denver. Yes, I have to deal with the snow once in awhile (this is the first bad winter we've had in over ten years), but that's minimal. I love the weather otherwise. There's always a lot to do here, without being so big that I feel insignificant or overwhelmed. There's a vibrant gay community here, and even outside that, most folks are quite open-minded about everything. The housing market is great, and the cost of living is quite reasonable.

How happy are you compared to where you grew up?

I grew up in San Francisco. I still love to visit, but there's no way I could live decently there on what we're making now. Now that I'm paying the bills, I prefer Colorado. :)

LotI - this is a great city with great views of both the skyline and the mountains...if you're facing the right way. The only problem is that lofts are in high demand, and so really pricey right now.

Lex
 
I can't imagine being happier, to be honest.

I also can't think of many people who woudln't trade places with me.
 
How happy are you where you live now?

I live in Liverpool, England and I am extremely happy with where I live. I chose to live here because of work and then went on to form many wonderful relationships with people here and ended up staying. I went on to meet my boyfriend and now business partner and have formed an unbreakable bond and formed a successful business here.

How happy are you compared to where you grew up?

Well my childhood was very happy but my family didn't really settle down in terms of location until I was around 10 so by that time I didn''t really knew where home was. I was born in this country but moved to new york because of my dads business and his family live there. I was too young to remember a lot of it but what I do remember is being happy but not as happy as where I am right now in my life. I often go back to the states to visit my dads side of the family but i've always considered the UK as my true home.
 
I live in phoenix and have lived here forever and I hate it I want to move to a small town somewhere and start a new life, not that I have a bad one now. The other place I would go to is Australia.
 
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