Tommy,
I actually live in the woods in a remote area of the Pocono Mountains, far from the madding crowds after spending most of my adult life closer to Philadelphia. We have bear and deer in our yard with some regularity, although I do wish the former would stop trespassing.
Work and play still take me up and down the "Northeast Extension" of the Pennsylvania turnpike and as we're now empty nesters, my wife and I travel as time permits to see the kids, parents, and siblings.
From a golf perspective, I feel perfectly placed being less than two hours from NYC and about an hour and a half from Philadelphia.
I owe a lot to this website as many of my long-time friends are folks I met through this website in almost every corner of the US, and in the case of my recent visit to Scotland, abroad as well.