Where lies the future?

 In Nepal, or the US? In the city or the suburbs or the boonies? What about jobs?

Friends are planning to situate themselves in Nepal semi-permanently. Will I want to do that? Not sure if it's for me, but I do want to spend not insignificant part of the year over there. In Nepal though I don't want to live with parents, and it's unclear where I'll make my abode, or if the independence plan is even viable.

In the U.S, I wrote a poem about if I want to live in the city, in the suburbs, or out in the boonies. Perhaps a mixture of those but that means additional capital which might not be available depending on the partner situation. Living in the city is good for parents, easily accessible, fun, and convenient. Downsides are, it's gonna be pricier, 2 bdr is hard to host family coming from out of town in, and city houses and apartments don't have much land. Nicer better suburbs that have most amenities of city are unaffordable. The affordable ones have no connection to transit, and isolated from shopping, so parents lose out on their independence. There's also limited land. Far out in the boonies there's a lot of advantages but the downsides are...no people around there, and the drive might take some time. Plus having plants and animals too many to take care of means one needs to hire a keeper for when they're away, which is...a lot of commitment to a place, worth evaluating if that's the lifestyle worth taking.

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