This is exactly it for me. I don't live to work, I work to live and I want to have interesting, dense, urban things as near to me as I can manage. My salary i

This is exactly it for me. I don't live to work, I work to live and I want to have interesting, dense, urban things as near to me as I can manage. My salary isn't as high as some around here but I still pulled off buying a cute, compact house smack in the middle of Seattle near 24-hour transit service and minutes to everything I want to do. That's after moving from the suburbs of Texas where anything besides a 7-11 or a Cici's Pizza were at least a 15-minute drive (and you could forget going via transit). Humans are social creatures and we want to be around other people. That's a generalization that usually holds true. Some people do want to live in a rural setting, with acres of land separating them from their neighbors. A coworker of mine does that and is quite happy with it. There just happen to be more of us, apparently, who want the urban environment.