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I like where we currently live because it is close to family, and close to the mountains. And it's beautiful! We bought a little starter home earlier this year, and plan to stay there 3-5 years. We haven't started having kids yet (but I think 2017 is our year!), but we'd ideally have them while we are still living close to family.

However, we've always thrown around the idea of moving back to my husband's home country (Ecuador). I am starting a new job in August that has the very real possibility of working remotely after a year...so we'll see! There are a few things that need to happen before I'd feel good enough to move back. I'm thinking it will happen in 5-8 years.

We are seriously discussing moving from MA to FL. We are tired of the winters here as well as the cost of living. Plus, my parents spend 1/2 the year there, so it would be nice to have their support. It's kind of scary trying to plan such a big move though. Plus we have a house to sell. The logistics are a huge to hurdle to getting this to work.

Meh? I live in a 60k town in the center of an agricultural valley. It's pretty low on culture etc but we both have good jobs as teachers and if we drive 2 hours in either direction, we are at the beach or the mountains. Our families are here or within a 2 hour drive, so that's great. Sometimes, I would really like to leave (not too far) but I am not sure where we would go exactly.

I live in Silicon Valley and it's a great place to live if you are into a fairly urbanish vibe and you have money. I'm not really into either so I don't love it. There's a lot of work hard/ play harder attitude here. Plus the CDC is investigating some of the pressure cooker high schools because of too many suicides (this is a fairly good reflection of the culture of this place, I believe).

At this point I'm dreaming about moving to a place where we could afford a house (houses here go for 1.5+ mil).

My never-gonna-happen dream is to move somewhere with land. Not even a huge amount of land, just like 1-5 acres. My parents' health keep us tied to Northern California and my husband has a fairly specific job that only has a couple places he could work in northern California.

I'd love to live in Davis, Ca. It's kind of a college town but it's a really great community. The Central Valley in California is fairly conservative, while the Bay Area is more liberal and I think Davis is a really good mix.

My husband just went to New Hampshire for a conference and now he's dreaming of moving there.

We just bought our forever (or until the girls go to college) home, but I can see us buying an RV and traveling when we retire... or possibly out west- I used to live in Santa Fe and miss it.

@Jackiedavis87: OMG are you me HAHA we are in the process of buying 10 acres from my in laws, and we will build about 2 football fields from them! However, in the 2 mile square radius from our future home are 5 other family members acreages! I'm not going to lie I'm really nervous about SO much family close, but my DH will be taking over the farm once FIL retires, so we have to be close!

We are in our forever location.. in the country (technically a 'village' town, pop. like 12 ) and centrally located to 3 big cities and a few smaller towns. I grew up on a farm and always thought I'd want to live in a bigger city, but I LOVE the country.
I lived in Florida for a year and loved that as well though, so maybe someday we'll be snowbirds.

We live in Vienna, and at this stage of our lives with young children it's great. But we know we will not be here forever (max of 7 years and we are halfway through that) and neither of us want to live here forever in any case. I have no idea where we will go next. Neither my husband not I feel the need to settle down somewhere. We are from different countries, so we have a fairly extensive range of options (and we both have major wanderlust), but we have never been able to pinpoint a place where we would like to put down roots. If it were up to me, we would live in Paris, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.

I'm not unhappy with where we live but it's not where we want to be long term. We hope to move back to our home state to be closer to our parents. And the ocean - I really miss living so close to the ocean.

I love our town, the nearby city (Portland, or), and our state (WA, my home state). Our house isn't perfect, but it works and we absolutely love the area. We also have some of the best schools in the state and the metro area here.

Sadly, it is highly likely that we will move from our town on the Washington side to somewhere on the Oregon side in the next few years. My husband is a tradesman, the work is in Oregon, and the commute from our town is brutal.

In a perfect world, we'd stay in our town and my parents would move closer. They're about 2 hours away now and it's further away than any of us would like.

We are going to have to decide soon where to lay down roots but right now we have no idea. Where we live now is very beautiful and idyllic but isolated and the nearest town is just horrendous. I shudder to think of raising my kids there. We have to decide whether family nearby trumps how much we loved living abroad and then figure it all out. But the short answer is no, we - or at least I - am not happy with where we live.

We also live in Westchester County, NY, which is just north of NYC. Our jobs brought us to this area, and despite it being one of the most expensive areas in the country, we plan on raising our family here. Our families are close by and we love the natural beauty of the area. Once the kids graduate and we retire, we want to sell our house and move to Hawaii. For real!

We are very happy where we are. 2 years ago we moved away from the city and back to Central PA to be close to our familyies. It was a bitter pill for me to swallow - I really didn't want to do it. But now that we're here and settled I'm pretty happy. It's nice having family less than 30 minutes away. My sister's son is 14 weeks younger than D and they are best friends. I love our neighborhood SO MUCH MORE than our old neighborhood, and the truth is we could not have afforded this neighborhood in/around Philly. I miss living so close to the city and all that that entails, but the tradeoff has been mostly worth it. Eventually when the kids are grown and married, I'd really like to move to Charleston, SC, at least part of the year.

@Alba4: I also live in Westchester and I grew up in Hawaii so I like your plan. We might do the same.

I'd love to move back to my home state, but we have a home here and are close to DH's family. We both have good jobs here, and my job is pretty specific and not easy to find. So we are staying in place. I miss my family, and I miss nature. But my ideal place (rural, small) doesn't have a lot of job opportunities.

I love living in the PNW. We had an opportunity to move to the Bay Area a few years ago that we thought hard about. Ultimately we decided it wasn't for us and I'm happy with that decision. Sometimes the endless rain gets to me, but a vacation usually solves that! Perhaps when we retire we will spend part of the winter in a sunnier locale.

I find it so interesting that so many people want to live in small towns! I am very happy in the suburb of our big city and I wouldn't mind living right in the city either!

I've lived in the same area (different towns but all in the same region) my whole life and I like it more now than I ever really thought I would when I was in high school/college/early 20s. At that time I wanted to get out and start over somewhere else but I never did and now I'm really appreciating being close to family and a built-in support system. Especially having friends with young kids who have moved far from family and are struggling with it. It helps that the city we are in now is revitalizing it's downtown area and there's a lot of fun stuff to do. We are looking to move more toward the suburbs since we are starting our family and want to buy a house, but we want to stay pretty close to the areas with restaurants/shops, etc.

I can see us eventually moving to VT though! Both of our families are from there and we love it.

I live in Austin and have always loved it. I'm looking forward to raising kids here. But if we had to move somewhere (and maybe someday we will!) my husband and I have always been interested in the Pacific NW. Oregon in particular. Has the Austin vibe we love but a whole lot greener. We'll see! For now we're happy Texans