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You bring up several excellent points and this has increased relevance now in our post-COVID world where teleworking is seen as a pretty much standard thing to do.

I too have the romanticized idea of living somewhere out in the sticks were life is slower, safer, and a whole lot quieter. The truth is that all comes with some costs. Unfortunately as was get older, health issues start to pop up. Being able to access good hospitals and doctors requires proximity to the larger cities. A three hour drive to the city for a doctor appointment can suck if you have to go a lot. When your younger, employment is a key factor. I remember as a kid watching the small towns around where our summer vacation cabin in up north Michigan was start to fall into economic ruin when the only large place of employment, a big paper mill, closed down. After that there was nothing but fast food, retail, and some small business's that offered low paying, part time service industry jobs. That sure ended a lot of the quaint, quite small town allure rather quickly.

True but statistically speaking, not that many people have the drive and intelligence to do that.

Before Covid, I had planned to move out of the rapidly declining Vancouver area to a rural area, but now I'm strongly considering moving outside of Canada.

Montana is real quiet and has cheap real estate and is right next to Canada in case you ever want to visit the place again.

Health care is keeping me in Canada.

I'd hit the sunbelt if I was able to live in the U.S.

Despite the crappy weather , I have nodesire to move off this isolated rock in the North Atlantic....being surrounded by water has its advantages

Like 10 feet of snow ?

IMO, big cities don't offer nearly the level of advantages that they did in previous eras.

There are a lot of major cities I would have loved to have lived in before the mid 2000s that I would hardly even consider visiting today.

That’s my thoughts as well.

I’m in the suburbs/rural. I like like this. Actually the growth here is getting to be more than my preference.

I would like to move to a fly-in community with a hangar attached to my house.

A few states I would consider get knocked off the list because of the politics. There are places I couldn’t own my gun collection.

I am contemplating this in northern Arizona right now--buying a house with a bunch of desert beside that I could land and park a homebuilt(that I pay someone to build) next to the house some day.

I live in one of the most mellow climate areas in the states here in the SF Bay area on the peninsula (born and raised)...usually not too hot or cold. It's friggin overcrowded here now though...and full of people who I don't share political ideologies with.

So...to answer your question Panzer...I want to stay here but I want 75% of the people that came here in the last 50 years to move away. Does that count?

BTW, just a kind of funny coincidence, one of the friends that moved from L.A. was born and raised in Winter Haven Florida.

To the original question:

I have lived in 3 places my entire life and 2 of them were rentals after I graduated high school. When I moved back from Cali, my mother moved out, as she could not stand my Xwife. Mother remained married to her, then, boyfriend for 31 years. She passed in 2020. I have a double lot at the end of a dead end street. They will remove the body after I pass, and god willing I will burn the place to the ground on the morning I die. I wish to leave nothing behind, other then my small fingerprint upon the internet.

Buying or selling a property here in the UK is a precarious travail; expensive, and a most stressful archaic bureaucratic system has to be negotiated.
My wife wants to move to be nearer to the children. Don't know why as we can easily contact them via SM and we don't have any grandchildren to consider yet. One lives in London so that is completely out of the question. One in Devon, lovely county but too many 'Emmetts' (tourists and trippers) for my liking. One in Salisbury, Wiltshire, a desirable county and prices reflect this. Also we would have to consider the welfare of my eldest son who lives in adjacent 'Granny Annexe' here who would have some difficulty adjusting to an independent life.

Also we just have too much stuff and junk!

More than that, at 72, with lots of lovely dog walking country here in rural Worcestershire, and the dojo I attend just a couple of miles away, I just can't be arsed!

I've come to the conclusion that big cities are nice to visit but not to live in. The prime example of this for me is NYC.

I agree with that PM !!Big cites suck.Too fast moving and too many angry people.I love New concord.I walk my pup and everyone who passes always gives up a greeting.I don't own a car anymore but everything is within walking distance.We have one family owned grocery store and two pizza places.And a hardware store.Amazon is a good source for stuff that isn't available here I take my pup out around 4:30 AM and naturally don't see anybody.We go around the block a few times a day and sometimes I can go a whole week and not see anyone.I don't need crowded streets and big box stores.

I don't even find them nice to visit.

I'm big into museums and the performing arts and you really don't find much of that in even many mid-sized cities.