Where Would You Live?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

What are your important factors?

Mine would include climate (I'm thermally challenged) as well as cultural amenities, political openness, water adjacent, access to rural areas, and transportation.

That I've never been there before, mostly.

I don't really care about people or civic/social institutions (the former are essentially the same everywhere and I don't use the latter very much). My not-so-secret love is geography. I just love being somewhere I haven't been before and three or four years is about right for somewhat fully exploring an area before I'm ready to move on. That is how long it took for me to get tired of living in the Bay Area. If it weren't for Lani's good job that she really, really likes I would have forced us to move long ago.

Living in Chicago, Cincinnati, Kabul, Cairo, etc., are all pretty much equally attractive to me because they are all in areas I've never had much opportunity to explore.