Comments on: Do You Love Where You Live?

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:13:09 +0000

I think also an important question is how to make money while living abroad.

Do you happen to have any insights on what someone getting a psychology degree can do?

By: Don Diego

Don Diego — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:16:41 +0000

No matter where you go, there you are.

Don’t kid yourself.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:00:08 +0000

I enjoyed your topic. It’s similar to how I feel. I am about to move to Vancouver a city I always loved but remained in Calgary for 8 years and traveling the world within that time but not Moving on feeling that I had already left my hometown and needed to make my home and not just move all the time. I was wrong and now I don’t regret but wish I had stayed in Italy when I had the chance or a bunch of other cities. We are all different and we have to live life to the fullest whatever that is for each of us. Everyone wants to be right and put there two cents in but you just explained how you felt and I think this spoke to me because my mind works in a similar way. I remember a couple on a train in Austria I think that said they lived where the jobs were. I said I lived where I wanted to go. Maybe not everyone has that opportunity. I know for a fact they don’t because I have a friend in the Phillippines that cannot leave her country. So seize the day if you are able to live your dreams.

By: elai

elai — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:28:03 +0000

Mature or dead & tired?

By: richard

richard — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:30:22 +0000

Brad – good piece of writing. i enjoyed reading it. i googled: “choosing a place to live in london” and it was first result. felt negative comments needed some balance.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:42:46 +0000

“Wherever you go, there you are.” Relocation can be great fun but don’t expect it to be a panacea.

By: Marti

Marti — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:05:17 +0000

Where we want to live changes with where we are in our heads at any given moment. I like the idea behind this post that encourages us to not get stuck in any one place for all the wrong reasons, but encourages us to think about movement and new horizons.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:27:01 +0000

I think the guidelines offered are a good starting point; enough to get a person thinking. I think a lot of people settle because ‘its just too hard’ to move.

By: Brad Bollenbach

Brad Bollenbach — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:09:38 +0000

@Gerard:

I agree that there’s no right or wrong, and that different people will want different things. Heck, I lived in a city of 45,000 people in the North of England and had a great time there.

My point was mainly to get people thinking about where they live and encourage them to aim as high as possible (by whatever standard they prefer) in choosing a place to call home, while also offering a few tips that have worked for me in moving from one place to another.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:06:24 +0000

Some of your thoughts strike me as being a tad immature. But, alas, you’ll grow up. You mention some great cities, but Tokyo? Really? To me, it is without soul. A city on auto-pilot that can’t stop for even a second of humanity. I travel a lot and find myself today in a new city that I had never known before. It isn’t one that would be on your list today, but you’ll be able to appreciate in another 15-20 years. There are many cities, all over the American Midwest, that I’d take in a blink over London. There’s no right or wrong, it takes all kinds to appreciate all kinds.