Where to live - Tommy Dixon

They say the three biggest decisions in life are: who you're with (partner), what you do (career), and where you live. I don’t have any of them figured out. So I decided to write about each—the only way I know to make sense of my busy head—starting with the one that's been on my mind the most: Where to live1. It’s a strange thing. To not feel I belong in the place I was born. I keep explaining to people how little I like southern Ontario, how nobody takes care of it anymore, I'm starting to sound like a badly broken record. I’m not saying I believe in past lives or anything, but if I did have a past life, I certainly didn’t live in some cookie-cutter suburb appended to a big city, surviving off its buzz like a parasite2. But, if not my hometown, I'm left wondering: Where to live? Choosing a place to live is perhaps the most consequential life decision I will make, maybe only after who I marry. Too consequential to be casual about3. The expanse of options at my fingertips, all the place

They say the three biggest decisions in life are: who you're with (partner), what you do (career), and where you live. I don’t have any of them figured out. So I decided to write about each—the only way I know to make sense of my busy head—starting with the one that's been on my mind the most: Where to live1. It’s a strange thing. To not feel I belong in the place I was born. I keep explaining to people how little I like southern Ontario, how nobody takes care of it anymore, I'm starting to sound like a badly broken record. I’m not saying I believe in past lives or anything, but if I did have