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Does Where You Live Make You Happy?
By Virginia Prescott on Friday, March 14, 2008.
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Thursday on Word of Mouth, we speak with Richard Florida, bestselling author of The Rise of the Creative Class. We talk with him about his latest book, Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. Florida says we all put lots of thought into what we want to do for a living and whom we want to spend our lives with, but we don't put enough thought about where we want to live. He says location is what really matters.
Do you agree? How much thought did you put into your current location? Did you just "find" yourself somewhere, or did you think carefully about where you wanted to live? Do you think Richard Florida is right? Do we put enough emphasis on where we want to spend our lives?
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Shallow and egoic mentality to ask this question. Jeese. Our economic system is causing hardships for indigenous people and animls all around the planet who are being displaced by corporations, chemical and agrobusiness companies continue to poison bees, frogs, air, water, and Mosanto is poisoning the food supply.....and all we should be asking ourselves is about personal happiness in the face of US hegemonic imperial machismo militaristic aggression being used to secure raw materials for economic gain??? PLEASE! Regardless of where we live, if we have poisonedwater, air, food, we could never be truly content, unless so shallow and selfish that the mess capitalism is and has made is of no concern.
Dirty air, contaminated soil, genetically altered "food," know no boundaries. Shoudn't we be asking some deeper, more spiritual questions abou our "place' as human beings on this planet our behaviors are poisoning, causing mass extinctions and changes in climate that affect millions of other species of plants and animals. How about asking if Polar bears are happy that their habitats are disappearing? How about asking infant Harp seals if they are looking forward to sealers INVADING their nursing grounds off Newfoundland, to have their faces bashed in because they eat cod, therefore, present a problem for the human cod industry? How about asking the wolved being gunned down in Alaska, 56 dead to date, so hunters can optimaize their kills? What about respecting thaat other species HAVE a right to exist and live in their natural territories, free frm assault and attack from humans who are proving, in my view, to be nothing but theives.
Is this going to be just another program that entitles listeners to remain catatonic about what we are doing to this planet?????
I just found where I live in an ad in the newspaper about 12 years ago. The rent is very cheap so that is one of the reasons I stay. My town has several great places where I can let my dog run (ball parks, back roads). I have access to many trails so my dog & I hike periodically on them. It takes me a 1/2 hour to get to work. I wish I was closer to work but then I wouldn't have so many "private" places to take my dog.