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Your Lifestyle Assessment

Answer about 55 questions about your life, work, climate, health, community, and budget. At the end, you’ll get a printable one-page report you can hand to your realtor.

1. Take the assessment → 2. Get your one-page report → 3. Bring it to your realtor

Your Lifestyle Assessment

This isn't a typical form. It's a guided conversation designed to help you discover what truly matters for your living situation — including things you may not have considered. Take your time. There are no wrong answers.

🔒 Your responses are private. Your assessment is free and covers your entire household. Your one-page report is yours right away. Your realtor opens the full report with the three credentials you give them.

Select all that apply. You can choose as many regions as you'd like.
Step 1 of 10 — About You
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🏠 About You & Your Household

Let's start with the basics. This helps us understand the kind of community that fits your life stage and household makeup.

Close your eyes. What does your ideal day look like? What's outside your window? Where do you go for coffee, for a walk, for peace? Paint us a picture.
Select all that apply — many households fit more than one category.
This affects fencing needs, veterinary access, dog parks, and pet-friendly regulations.

🚗 Work & Commuting

Your commute shapes your daily life more than almost anything else. Let's figure out what works — and if you work remotely, we'll focus on the infrastructure you need instead.

Enter a city or address. We'll calculate commute times to every community in our database.
Communities beyond this time will be flagged but not excluded — sometimes the perfect community is worth a few extra minutes.
If you travel frequently, this matters more than you think.
Beaches, ski areas, lakes, trails, golf courses — we can calculate distances to your regular spots too.

🌡 Climate & Weather Preferences

Weather shapes everything — your mood, health, recreation, and energy bills. Tell us what matters, and we'll match you with communities where the climate actually works for you.

How much winter do you want? This shapes which communities we surface for you.
Choose what feels right for you.
Dark skies matter for stargazing, sleep quality, and sense of place. Rural areas vary widely.
Proximity to highways or agriculture affects air quality. Important for respiratory conditions.

📶 Infrastructure & Essential Services

The unglamorous things that make daily life work — or don't. These are the factors most people discover too late, after they've already moved. We check them first.

Broadband quality varies dramatically between rural and urban areas — and between providers. We track actual speeds, not advertised ones.
Cell coverage gaps exist in every state — often in the most beautiful places. We track actual coverage, not carrier maps.
Road quality and maintenance schedules vary enormously by county and municipality. In storm country, this is your evacuation route. In snow country, this is your morning commute.
In remote areas, response can take 30+ minutes. If you have health conditions, this matters.
Some towns have curbside; others require transfer station trips. Small thing, big quality-of-life factor.

🏥 Health, Safety & Wellbeing

Distance to a hospital matters when it matters most. Environmental factors affect your daily wellbeing in ways you might not think about until it's too late.

We track flood zones, historical flooding data, and environmental vulnerability for every state.
What does a safe place look like to you?
Even if you're young — do you want a community where you can stay as you age? Thinking a few years ahead, how much do these matter?

👥 Community & Social Life

A house is a structure. A home is a community. Research shows that community connection is one of the strongest predictors of life satisfaction — and it's the one factor most relocation tools completely ignore.

We track which communities actively welcome diverse populations.
Town greens, farmers markets, festivals, community suppers.
Many communities have strong civic traditions — we factor local civic engagement into your match.

🎓 Education & Cultural Life

Educational and cultural resources shape a community's character and your opportunities for growth.

What do your children need from a school?
In many communities, local libraries serve as genuine social hubs, not just book repositories.

⛷ Recreation & Lifestyle

Vermont is a playground. But the kind of play that matters to you determines which corner is your paradise.

🏠 Property & Financial

These details go into the search terms your realtor will run in their own MLS.

✨ Your Voice — What Else Matters?

This is the heart of what makes Home Sweet Home different. Structured questions capture data. But you are more than data points. This section is where you tell us what really matters — the things no algorithm would think to ask.

Is there a question you wish we'd asked? Ask it here — we'll address it in your report.
Maybe it's being near a specific type of store, or a particular activity, or a community with a specific character. Whatever it is — we want to know.

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