Living the Life You Choose

Part of the attraction of the new urbanist lifestyle is that it is all about living a life shaped by what is important to you. When we first searched out our first home we didn’t think in terms of full quality of life. We thought about where could we find a great looking house that was affordable. Well we found the house of our dreams and it was located exactly 1.5 hours away from our jobs in the city. That terrible commute increased to 2 hours in the winter and had a terrible impact on our quality of life.

Well that was 12 years ago, we’ve since moved to a community that subscribes to new urban principles. There are beautiful bike paths all around us, excellent recycling programs, numerous accessible office parks for employment and services, great local shopping, seasonal festivals and wonderful community organizations that keep things running.

What made the difference is the people living here. It wasn’t always like this. This is a community of people who chose to make the community reflect their life priorities. Isn’t life really about choice? Are you taking advantage of the choices available to you? Do you know what choices are available? If you can’t change your community perhaps it’s time to think about moving and I might be able to help.

I’m working on my listing of new urban style communities in the U.S. and Canada and I can’t wait to get it posted, so check back soon!