What's more important: where you live or who you live with.

[Funtatlaguy]

Take this scenario: you get to pick anywhere in the world that you want to live (let’s say Hawai’i) But, your significant other is someone that you have no real love for.
You don’t hate them. They don’t abuse you. They just bore you.
If you leave or divorce your significant other, you can no longer afford to live there and must move.

Or: you get a significant other that is the absolute love of your life in every way. But, you have to live in a place that you do not like and there is no way your significant other will leave there.

For this scenario: Assume all other things are equal...such as monetary considerations, job status, family and friends.

You are just making a choice on love or location. A small variation on the “for love or money” question.
Which do you choose?

[mokawanis]

1. Who you live with is everything

the where of it matters, but not nearly as much. I am fortunate to have both....the house I wanted from the moment I saw it, and the partner I've been with for 38 years.

[handmade34]

2. who you live with...

my partner has sacrificed for me and lives in the cold, wilds of Vermont with bears and other creatures...instead of the civilized world he came from... he would answer "who you live with"

[Funtatlaguy]

3. I chose location.

Everything is great about my life but the lack of romance
I can’t be the only one in this situation.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Me too.

I live alone and I feel the same way. If I am going to find love, I will find it here.

If I am miserable where I live, I would not be a good companion for everyone and eventually I would resent the person who was insisting that I stay there for them.

[ProudLib72]

4. I'm going with location

Because if I'm not happy where I'm living, I'm going to make the love of my life miserable as well.

Can there be a happy medium? Maybe I we can find a place that is tolerable but not ideal?

[Cairycat]

5. I'm fortunate

I live with the love of my life in a place I like. We've lived together in a place that was disadvantageous for us, but came back to Iowa, which we both like I've lived in a place I really liked with someone who I ended up divorcing, so I think I've seen both sides.

A friend of mine is from Texas, which he really loves. But he wrote (and performed publicly) a song for his wife, "I love you more than Texas".

[Phentex]

7. Love & live with or I wouldn't be here...

I'd rather live in his world than live without him in mine...

[hunter]

8. I've never lived in a boring place, never lived with boring people.

Life's an adventure man, wherever you land.

We're all living on a speck of dust for an instant in time. Celebrate!

As the Great Buckaroo Banzai said, "Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are."

[Fla Dem]

9. No need to think about it. Who you live with is everything.

If you have a miserable home situation, you're unhappy it affects every part of your life and can even ruin your health.

[Thyla]

10. Absolutely who you are with

But it is not restricted to just family or love reasons.

Work is another big thing and plenty of people who are used to international working will regularly move for a good opportunity. Europe is good like that. And we'd move back to Oz in a heartbeat if it made sense but currently it's a tough sell.

[earthshine]

11. My wife and I say to each other, "Home is where you are, sweetie."