Well I'm trying to accomplish many of this things. I live near my son and managed to stay in Sicily even if with my work it was hard. I'm finally working at Redis full time, so I'm avoiding doing things I don't care, at least in the work side. Now I live with my woman, this was very hard and took two years of sacrifices where she was in Florence. I only live three months every year near to the sea, in the rest of the year I've to live at 15 Km from the sea, at 800 meters of altitude in the vulcano Etna.

Good point about working long hours. Unfortunately currently I'm working too much, but fortunately I'm working too much spending my time in things I like a lot. I need just to adjust how many hours I work every week :)

One thing that makes me happy and I noticed that works with many people I know is to go out for the two days of the week end, without bringing with me my laptop, so that I'm sure I'll enjoy other things.

Thanks for asking, this is a good exercise to do: what makes you happy? and what you still need to accomplish in order to be happy? It's better to fix what's wrong asap as life is wonderful but not infinite :)