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My hometown I believe ticks all 4 of the things you mentioned. So I agree with you that genetics is a minor part of the equation This is a personal anecdote of

My hometown I believe ticks all 4 of the things you mentioned. So I agree with you that genetics is a minor part of the equation This is a personal anecdote of mine: I lived in 3 nations: Sardinia ( hometown ), London and Vilnius. I do a lot of running and I love collecting data, something I noticed is that every time I go back to my hometown my VO2 max starts skyrocketing, after training as little as 3 weeks in my hometown it goes up by more than 10 points, when I go back it starts declining slowly until it goes back to slightly above the value when I left. I do believe there must be something special about the environment, I do continue working from home when I'm in my hometown to stay longer, so it is not an holiday effect, my diet actually goes worst when I go back home because I go a lot to restaurants that I missed. And even with worst diet my fitness improves fast ( I run faster with same HR ( even for a while when I'm back ), VO2 and race predictor improves drastically), my stress goes down and my sleep score almost maxes out ( 98/100 )

jsjohnst 5y ago
If it’s so great (which it sounds like it from your description), then why don’t you just stay there?
- maury91 5y ago
  Same reason why everyone leaves ( and at some point comes back ), career. I did leave the first time ( for London ) for work, came back 3 years later but had to leave again because my wife had trouble find a job in Sardinia ( she doesn't speak Italian ), maybe we will go back to Sardinia in the future when both our careers will be fully remote
  - jsjohnst 5y ago
    As I suspected. I know you say you’ve worked remotely from Sardinia, but have you thought that maybe your career is also a major factor along with environmental differences (which is definitely an issue with London due to air quality / weather alone)? Working remotely is often very different health wise than doing the same job in an office based on my anecdata experience (both working from home, but near-ish to my employer, for over a year, as well as spending a year on the road working remotely from an camper/RV).
    - maury91 5y ago
      The good thing is that I don't work in London from many years, now I'm working in Lithuania, air quality is way better than in London. From when covid hit being in the office has become the exception more than the norm ( we need to compile a form to being able to go the office ) so on the working remotely not much did change

jsjohnst 5y ago

If it’s so great (which it sounds like it from your description), then why don’t you just stay there?

maury91 5y ago
Same reason why everyone leaves ( and at some point comes back ), career. I did leave the first time ( for London ) for work, came back 3 years later but had to leave again because my wife had trouble find a job in Sardinia ( she doesn't speak Italian ), maybe we will go back to Sardinia in the future when both our careers will be fully remote
- jsjohnst 5y ago
  As I suspected. I know you say you’ve worked remotely from Sardinia, but have you thought that maybe your career is also a major factor along with environmental differences (which is definitely an issue with London due to air quality / weather alone)? Working remotely is often very different health wise than doing the same job in an office based on my anecdata experience (both working from home, but near-ish to my employer, for over a year, as well as spending a year on the road working remotely from an camper/RV).
  - maury91 5y ago
    The good thing is that I don't work in London from many years, now I'm working in Lithuania, air quality is way better than in London. From when covid hit being in the office has become the exception more than the norm ( we need to compile a form to being able to go the office ) so on the working remotely not much did change