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Bloom where you're planted... or Not?
Conventional wisdom tells us, "Bloom where you're planted...no matter where you go - there you are".  And in many cases, those two adages ring true.  But not always.   
 
I have come to realize, both as a Real Estate Professional - and as a consumer, concerning my own whereabouts, that there do, in fact, exist better, and worse places to live - For You.   There is true magic in finding one's own tribe - a place where the "group-think" is more in line with your own sensibilities.   And I have found that when one is actually ready to settle down...when we are ready to stop slaying the windmills around us like some deranged Don Quixote, that is when we will find that elusive place where we truly belong - assuming that the place we were planted isn't, in fact, the most perfect place we could possibly be. 
 
My fiancee and I moved back to the place where he left decades earlier - a place where, as progressive as it is, in many very quaint ways, it is no different than it was fifty years ago.   This is a place where neighbors know your business - but they also tend to find ... more

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