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.<p>Pros:<p>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 <i>real</i> solitude (being the only person in the surrounding square mile) within two hours.<p>It's a fairly safe city. I can walk around downtown at midnight and still be alive the next morning.<p>It's a fairly clean city.<p>It's reasonably well laid out, reasonably easy to get around.<p>There's decent economic opportunity.<p>Cons:<p>I'm not Mormon. Salt Lake is less heavily Mormon than it used to be, but those aspects still sometimes drive me crazy.<p>Air pollution can get somewhat heavy sometimes. (A large city in a valley surrounded by mountains typically has that problem.)<p>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.<p>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.