Rewind: Location, Location, Location

Dear Sugars

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Dear, Steve Almond, Society & Culture, Wbur, Cheryl Strayed, Sugar, Boston, Advice

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🗓️ 27 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

From our archives—this episode originally aired on April 10th, 2017.

Location, location, location. It makes all the difference in real estate, and it can make all the difference to one's happiness. But finding a place that really feels like home can be tricky.

Home is where the heart is, we're told. But what if "where the heart is" doesn't align with where your job is? Or when your head — or your significant other — tries to talk you out of a location that makes your heart happy?

The Sugars discuss the significance of location and home with the help of Pam Houston, whose memoir is about finding her forever-home on a ranch at 9,000 feet in Colorado. Her other books include Contents May Have Shifted and Cowboys Are My Weakness.

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0:00.0	When the world keeps shifting, we're there to help you act with confidence.
0:05.0	At HSBC, we bring together the people, ideas and capital that drive growth,
0:10.0	backing your ambitions at every stage.
0:13.0	So when you're preparing for the next generation,
0:15.0	strengthening your portfolio, or you're entering new markets,
0:19.0	we're there, bringing 160 years of experience to help you move forward.
0:23.6	HSBC, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:30.6	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:39.3	Sugar is here. The both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:44.5	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:45.9	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:49.4	Oh, dear son, won't you please?
0:55.0	Share some medicine. Oh dear song, won't you please?
1:02.0	Share some little sweet days with me.
1:22.5	I check my bell box every day. Oh, and the sugar you see in my way. Hi, Cheryl. Hi, Steve. How are you doing? I'm good.
1:29.1	Here we are talking in my hometown. I often say on the credits, Portland, Oregon, my hometown. And we're going to talk about home today. We get so many unexpected letters. I say unexpected because I
1:35.2	usually think of our show as being one where we discuss, you know, these psychological issues and
1:40.6	family dysfunctions. But we get a lot of letters from people who say, should I live here or there? Or I want to live here and he wants to live there. Or should I go off and do this? Yes. People send us sometimes Zillow or Redfin listings and we're like apparently they want us to sell or buy a home with them. So yeah. It's crazy what's happening. Location, location, location. That's it. That's what we're going to talk
2:01.4	about today. And I have to say, it's not a dilemma in my life. I finished my hike on the Pacific
2:07.9	Crest Trail. Some of you might have heard that I did that. That's right. You did hike the Pacific Coast
2:13.4	Trail, right? Crest Trail, not coast. It's not coast. It's a crest trail.
2:18.2	I knew that.
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