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Or Antarctica too.

Like, pretty much any of those place has

0) Air at not a near vacuum

1) Liquid water

2) not a lot of radiation

3) appropriate gravity

Why would you want to even live on Mars? You have to essentially live in a very small pressure bunker at some rad-safe depth. Doing so for a little while would be fun and exciting, sure. Homesteading that life? Every one of your kids would opt to leave (if possible) the second they got a chance.

Well, I seem to recall hearing about this city called "Rapture" under the sea, and it didn't work out very well at all. Would you kindly read up on it?

To be fair many of Rapture's problems were extremely avoidable, except possibly by libertarian idealists.

"To get to our habitat, you take a commercial flight to Bali, then a two-hour trip by boat" just does not have the same ring as "it's a six month trip in a space ship, but in a couple decades it might be as fast as 30 days". Being far away from everything is a major part of the appeal

If it's possible to call me back to the SF office for a client meeting the day after tomorrow I'm not going

Won't somebody think of the disgruntled misanthropes?