If you’ve traveled at all, even if it’s just a few miles from your home, you’ve undoubtedly run across places that you can’t imagine living. Desolate or teeming, scorching or freezing, swamp-like or bone-dry, gaudy or spartan, run down, dilapidated or just different. How could anyone live in a place like this?
It’s easy to forget that life is about relationships. People might initially choose to live in one place because of a career or a lifestyle, but they stay because of the people. You move somewhere, you take up a certain lifestyle, you meet some great people, and suddenly this new place you’re living in is the best place on earth.
Fundamentally, it’s not the place: the people and the relationships you form are the driving force behind your perception of any locale.
This is good news if you’re miserable living somewhere: all it takes is a few great friends to completely change your perception.
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