I need reasons NOT to be in the mountains. I was born and raised in the Sierra Nevadas by Yosemite and going to the central valley was horrible. Flat and level ground seemed to create the opposite mentality that the mountains did. The mountains was care free people, the flats were a bunch of pissed off and unhappy people. Altitude helps the soul. Maybe it is the over abundance of air at lower levels that makes people so awful, but the thin air bypasses the yuck.