Does location matter to you? What are the pros and cons of living in your current city/country? Would you rather move somewhere else, and if so, where?
Current location: (suburbs of) Salt Lake City, Utah.
Pros:
The surroundings. I've got 6000 vertical feet of mountains visible from at least the southern half of the valley. I've got world-class ski resorts 45 minutes away. That's close enough that I can look at the weather report in the morning and decide to take a day off work. There's a pretty good trout stream 45 minutes away. There's a bunch of red-rock national parks 5 hours away. There's solitude within an hour. There's real solitude (being the only person in the surrounding square mile) within two hours.
It's a fairly safe city. I can walk around downtown at midnight and still be alive the next morning.
It's a fairly clean city.
It's reasonably well laid out, reasonably easy to get around.
There's decent economic opportunity.
Cons:
I'm not Mormon. Salt Lake is less heavily Mormon than it used to be, but those aspects still sometimes drive me crazy.
Air pollution can get somewhat heavy sometimes. (A large city in a valley surrounded by mountains typically has that problem.)
It's too big for my taste (and too small for others). I'd rather live in a city of 100,000 than in a city of 1,000,000.
I'd rather move to Fort Collins, Colorado. That's pretty close to my ideal situation. But my parents are here, and they're pretty old. And my daughter has a full-tuition scholarship at a university here. Under current circumstances, I don't see going anywhere.
There's a lot of web and B2B stuff in Utah County. (Google for "Silicon Slopes" - yeah, the term is marketing hype, but there really is a fair amount going on.) I'm an embedded systems guy, and that's... not a roaring market, but fairly steady.
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The surroundings. I've got 6000 vertical feet of mountains visible from at least the southern half of the valley. I've got world-class ski resorts 45 minutes away. That's close enough that I can look at the weather report in the morning and decide to take a day off work. There's a pretty good trout stream 45 minutes away. There's a bunch of red-rock national parks 5 hours away. There's solitude within an hour. There's real solitude (being the only person in the surrounding square mile) within two hours.
It's a fairly safe city. I can walk around downtown at midnight and still be alive the next morning.
It's a fairly clean city.
It's reasonably well laid out, reasonably easy to get around.
There's decent economic opportunity.
Cons:
I'm not Mormon. Salt Lake is less heavily Mormon than it used to be, but those aspects still sometimes drive me crazy.
Air pollution can get somewhat heavy sometimes. (A large city in a valley surrounded by mountains typically has that problem.)
It's too big for my taste (and too small for others). I'd rather live in a city of 100,000 than in a city of 1,000,000.
I'd rather move to Fort Collins, Colorado. That's pretty close to my ideal situation. But my parents are here, and they're pretty old. And my daughter has a full-tuition scholarship at a university here. Under current circumstances, I don't see going anywhere.
This is an amazing advantage.
How's the tech scene there?