Which is more important people or places? Network more or become an expat?

Are people and what they do more important than places where they live? I'd like your opinion.

Or would moving to another country really make a grumpy old man (for example me!) happier?

Confused? All right I'll explain a bit more.

For as long as I can remember, I have been saying that people are more important than places.

Instead of admiring the architecture in some far away place, I would rather mingle with the locals and find out what it is really like to live in this place or that.

When Channel 4 TV program 'A Place in the Sun' comes on, I don't want to ogle yet another boring bedroom carefully presented for viewing or an ideal cellar ripe for conversion to a games room.

Instead, I want to know whether there is a tennis court nearby and whether they play folk music in the nearby pub or bar.

To me, how people spend their day, the things they talk about and the ways they spend their time is more important than living in France or Ecuador.

So why do I yearn to find the perfect place to live instead of England where living costs next to nothing, the climate is good and the senoritas dance all night?

I'd love to have your opinion and if you have a place you would like to live instead of where you are, spill the beans.

Is the world of expat land out there greener?

Thanks in advance

Rob

(online author - fiction - news)