re: How important is living where you want to live to your happiness?

pretty important. i'm picky tho. we found this out when trying to buy our first home.


i don't want to live in the city (lived within 610 in Houston for 8 years; frick traffic, frick bums, frick hoods, and the shittiness and crime that go along with it)
i also don't want to live deep in the sticks (i like my high-speed internet too much and don't want to commute 3hrs a day)
i don't want to live in suburbia (i hate cookie cutter gated neighborhoods, you can keep that pretentious horseshite)
i don't want a huge piece of land (no time for upkeep with a 9-5, hobbies, and social life right now)
i don't want a garden home or small yard (my outside dog loves trees and being able to run, want kids to have a big yard)
i don't want a brand new home (most builders nowadays suck, only in it to get rich quick, and carpentry is cheap shite nowadays)
i don't want an old home (don't really have time for a fixer upper, even tho i do like some projects)


i want to live in the South (Yankees suck, liberals suck, and our food is just better, plain and simple)
i don't want to live too close to Home (Baton Rouge SUCKS: will be Jackson, MS or Detroit in less than 10 years)
i don't want to live too far from Home (within 4-5 hour drive for holidays, football games, and to see friends/family regularly)
i cannot live too far away from a major city (because my occupation is IT and I don't know of any IT companies out in the sticks)