NYT: The Five-Bedroom, Six-Figure Rootless Life

            This NY article explained the life of “relos,” people who were frequently forced to relocate because of their jobs.  I thought this article was intriguing because it implied that occasionally having money and belong to the upper class has its drawbacks.  For instance, although Jim Link made over 200,000 dollars a year, he and his wife did not seem happy with their living situation in Alpharetta even though they lived in an expensive home.  Their youngest daughter had trouble adjusting to the neighborhood and the parents themselves complained about the traffic and not having any deep connections to the city.  When Jim Link got the news they were moving to another city, his wife was extremely happy.  They settled into a nice neighborhood in the new town quickly, however, within a few months they would be leaving again.  This causes me to question money’s worth.  It seems to me as though the family would have been much happier if Jim Link was earning less but they lived in a community that the whole family felt a part of.  To what extent is making a high salary worthwhile?  Should money be a powerful enough entity to dictate where and how people spend their lives?  I personally think that there comes a point when taking a lower paid job in exchange for the ability to decide the terms of one’s life is necessary in order to feel that one is living the life that he/she wants.