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Cool Green Tool: Optimal Home Location

Do you know where you should live? Not where you want to live or where you dream of living ... but where you should live?

We didn't. But now we do ... sort of ...

Check out this cool little web site we just found (via EcoGeek). It'll tell you, based on where you work and the places you frequent, where you should live.

It's a pretty interesting little exercise. For instance, based on our information, we should live about 10 miles south of where we are right now. But we're scratching our heads a bit -- although it would make one of our commutes shorter, it would put us in a considerably less walkable neighborhood. Although this is all hypothetical, we wonder how that would balance out.

Try it out. Do you live where you should live? Or are you in the wrong place altogether?

Via EcoGeek

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Comments (3)

well, according to this i should live in the reflecting pool.

posted by beesknees on December 4th 2008 at 10:21am
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This tool doesn't work very well for us at all. My husband does drive between 600km and 1000km a week which is an awful lot, but he is always going to different places. We've chosen to live where we do, because it is convenient to our family activities such as church, grandparents and chiropractor. The kids can go to the school that is closest to our house no matter where we live. And I stay at home, so commuting to school and then work and then back to school and home again isn't an issue for us.

And the location that they told us we should live is in the middle of the country and we'd have to drive 20 minutes (in a second car) just to get milk. I know this because I have a friend who lives almost exactly where the tool said we should live.

posted by cdntina on December 4th 2008 at 2:00pm
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Hmmm, it says I should be living on railroad tracks.

posted by midge123 on December 4th 2008 at 2:06pm
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