How tied are you to your current location?

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I've noticed several questions recently asked about people's independent living and living enviroment. I was wondering how many people are tied to their current location, and really can't move.

I've noticed some categories:

1. I'm independent with my own personal income - Work online, have passive income, can travel, etc.

2. Need a new job - Individuals who could move, but they'd have to find new empoyement, which is'nt easy these days. I fall into this category myself.

3. House underwater/mortgage trouble - Enough said.

4. Personal obligatons - Moving can be rough on those we love and cherish.

5. Stop Posting - People who think I should delete my account, and go take a long electronic trip down the river Styx.

6. Self-explanatory.

Maybe the second option, I guess.
I live rent-free (although I and my brothers pay the electricity etc) in a house owned by my parents, and wouldn't be able to afford rent if I moved elsewhere. A job with more hours would help.

My rent is $850/month and I have no children or spouse. I guess I'm free to move. I was thinking about it anyway.

I'm 100% tied to my location until I finish school. Once I do, then my job will dictate where I live.

Since I'm still at school, I'm tied to this location. Other than that It's nicer being around the family than all alone somewhere in a city among a bunch of strangers (I live in a quite crowded area of Germany).

I'm in a bit of a tight spot. I live in a small-ish town with very few job opportunities (and none at all with any long-term potential). In order to have a decent chance at finding work or anything on which I might base a career, I'd need to go elsewhere, but as I don't have work, I don't have the money to go anywhere else. I'm essentially stuck in a holding pattern here until something arises.

I suppose I could move. I don't want to and have no intention of ever doing so. I moved enough when I was a child. There will be no more moving. Different apartment, sure. Different city, NO. Could maybe do one of the smaller towns a half hour drive west of the city, up in the mountains, but no further.

I'm married, with 2 babies, and we still have 2.5 years on our mortgage agreement before we can sell. Other than that, it would take a lot for me to want to move. I've never lived more than 50 miles from my birth place...

I'm a college student with a low paying part-time job. I'm not going anywhere from my family's home anytime soon.

It's the only place cheap enough for my size family. The mountains are to nice and lack people. Moving sux.

Since I don't work and have no money I'm stuck where I am. I live with my mother. I'm ok with that.

None of the poll answers quite fit, but I'm tied down in a way... a good way. Successfully self-employed, and have too many things with business to make moving anywhere practical. In addition to that, I'm happy where I live, and have no reason to want to leave, except for lots of disgust/disagreement with the politics in California. We also have a little house in Dallas, and spend time there to recover from frustrations of SoCal now & then.

Charles

i can't really afford the real estate anyplace else that is in a temperate weather zone.

Sick of living on an island, would jump ship in a heart beat.