I had a discussion at work with a co-worker (in his 50s) who's been in the business for a while. He was saying how LA sucks and it's such a low quality of life that's just getting worse and worse and we should get out of here. More and more I've been thinking about what to do next. A house would be nice. A less stressful job would be good. Not being gone 11 hours a day between work/traffic would be great. Are these things too much to ask for?

I occasionally go to realtor.com and look up houses back home. Do I really want to move back home, probably not. The house we could afford there would be awesome though and of course many of my friends are there. Outside of local news, there's not much TV and the state is really going downhill. My parents claim to be moving to LA this year. It would be weird to move to OH after they leave.

So I went on findyourspot.com to do their survey. Here's the top 10 cities it came up with: Norfolk, VA, Chesapeake-Virginia Beach, VA, Chapel Hill, NC, Charlotte, NC, Cincinnati, OH, Springfield, MS, Hampton, VA, Asheville, NC, Raleigh, NC and Charleston, SC. I said that I hated snow, so I think that's why it's mostly places in the south. I don't really think I want to live in the south. Although they say there are a lot of cable channels in Atlanta.

Our friend LFL says the greater Philly, PA area is great and we should move by him. Relatively close to NY and it has a couple tv options. He's in a nice area and really is kinda central, but I don't know. All we would know is him, but then again unless we wanted to move to our hometowns, we're not really gonna have a lot of people we know in any other city. It's hard to think about settling down in a place where you don't know anyone. If I'm gonna have that chinese baby from Russia one day, I'm gonna need some people around who can tell me what the heck I should be doing.