Why is where you live the best place to be?

Tell us why where you live is the best place to be (for a permie)!

Is it community? Climate? Culture? Spaceousness? Peace and quiet? Or something else? Let us know!

Where I live is the best place to be, for me, because I was born here and my family has been here a few generations.  
I feel like I belong to this bit of land in my heart - - (as a young man I had dreams of moving to Costa Rica and being a Fruitarian, but I couldn't bring myself to abandon my home place.)...
I feel like I was made for this valley, although my Vata body type is truly more suited to the Tropics.
The cold and very rainy winters and dry summers of this area may dismay others, but I've come to appreciate each season.
May-June & September-October are spectacular and sublime here, though.
In addition to being tied here by family bonds, the land in which I dwell seems to support abundant plant growth too.

So in conclusion, my reason for this being the best place for me is less to do with ideal permaculture conditions and more to do with family and spiritual feelings, and convenience.  However, I expect that a lot of people (perhaps a majority?) don't feel a special love or affinity or tether to the place they were born.  
Having travelled around the states though, and British Columbia too, I found many lovely and beautiful places, but I never found a place I liked better than Home.

The best place to be …or the best place for me given my options …. Anyway, I moved here from MN.  I left a winter where the temp hit 53 below F. The summer I left behind it never got over 85.  When I walked outside I inhaled mosquitoes and gnats. So, I got down here seeking a masters degree.  In Oct, the locals were complaining that the temps were still hitting 100.   Of course, it was fall, so the humidity was low.   I landed a job in a county with 25% unemployment. … property prices reflected that.

So,  short form is I bought a house and acreage.   Humidity is a killer in July and August. Locals complain when the temp crashes to 32F.   I am 70 to 100 miles from cities over 100,000.   I am maybe 5 miles from a hospital.   I have great neighbors.

I think that where I live isn't meaningfully the best place to be, and probably it's even worse for most people.

However...we wanted to move somewhere that isn't very hot. We love how pretty northern Minnesota is and have been vacationing up the north shore (of Lake Superior) since the mid '90s. We wanted to live a somewhat rural life on acreage that was affordable. And we wanted to be within a half hour of an office building for the major national bank where my wife works. We love Duluth as a small city and living in its orbit is nice. We favored Carlton County's lower property taxes over St. Louis County's higher ones. We wanted gigabit fiber to the house.

Nina Surya wrote:Tell us why where you live is the best place to be (for a permie)!

Is it community? Climate? Culture? Spaceousness? Peace and quiet? Or something else? Let us know!

A lot of folks probably dream of living where I live.

On top of a mountain,  peaceful and quiet. with the sound of wind through the trees and lots of wildlife viewing.

This is the life for me, I love it and dear hubby loves it.

Most folks if they found themselves magically transported here would not be happy for long.

There are no bright lights of the city.  At night it is pitch black, though the night sky is marvelous.

No shopping or restaurants, no neighbors to party with.

No meal delivery service or Uber ...

Nina Surya wrote:Tell us why where you live is the best place to be (for a permie)!

Is it community? Climate? Culture? Spaceousness? Peace and quiet? Or something else? Let us know!

Nina. 12/28/2025
I have resided in my final earthly location ( Piedmont NC) for over 40+ years... I have changed this section of earth from "orange colored clay/sand ground" to beautiful soil that has TILTH to it...
Smells great, asorbs the falling rain, and you never get muddy shoes if you walk in the garden after a rain..

For me this is the best place to be.  We're an hour and a half from the ocean, and an hour from the Cascade mountains.  I'm in a smaller city right next to a big city so I have transit and access to anything I need, while having a safe enough environment for my more country-like husband to feel safe here and not afraid.  There are lots of things we can grow here in zone 8 and a long growing season.  There are trees and green everywhere and we have multiple Renaissance faires and fantasy festivals within a 3 hour radius to perform at, rather than only having one big one like some areas do.  Multiple smaller ones is better for me as a performer for varied oppertunity.  The county I live in is a purple county politically, which is where I fit.  Multnomah County (where I lived a majority of my life in Portland proper) was too blue for me, and a red county would be too red for me.

There are lots of places to swim in rivers so the summer is wonderful, and there are creeks and parks and woods to enjoy as well.