A GetWisdom founder recently shared this with a friend: “Happiness is not tied to a location. You take your happiness and unhappiness with you wherever you go. If you can’t find happiness here, you won’t find it there either – or anywhere for that matter.” What is Creator’s perspective?

It is certainly the case that moving away is a common perceived answer for being in a state of difficulty, particularly when things are lacking, not working out, and seeming to be a kind of dead-end where one is in a rut, where things are not changing for the better, and this is often misperceived as situational, and this gives rise to the common saying, "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence," and, "One needs to look for greener pastures," and so on. While it is true that there is an uneven distribution of environmental beauty, natural resources, good weather, economic stability, cultural refinements, and advanced opportunities, and so on, what is being addressed here is that "water seeks its own level" and moving from one place to another without a change within does not increase your chances of success necessarily because it will not add to your wherewithal. You will not be smarter, better, more skilled, more knowledgeable, more effective, and thus more successful simply through a geographic change, even if there are more opportunities in the new setting. Finding a better environment could bring about a change for the better, but most times people cannot sort out what is truly better except in the most superficial way that is based on many, many assumptions. Moving to a nicer location might actually decrease chances of success in terms of having stability, economic viability, opportunities for a career advancement, and so on. If one is in a better location in terms of the economy, the demographic picture where there is a high percentage of college graduates, for example, and much more desirable weather, and so on, such geographic advantages will be highly sought out and the competition will be much greater, and criteria for acceptance much more stringent to find a job and be able to pay a rent or a mortgage if there is a higher cost of living, because it is a more enjoyable location, and the competition is keener for housing and employment. The most important issue being addressed in the question is that the biggest liability people face is their own inner shortcomings, their inner doubts, their inner fears, their inner reservations, their inner misconceptions and faulty thinking created by much prior trauma that instilled faulty beliefs within the person and left many, many karmic wounds that will project negativity into the future, and the Law of Karma will circle around and bring the same challenges back to you if things were never healed along the way. The purpose of this paradigm is to ensure you learn the lessons of life—how to navigate, how to become successful, how to develop the self and hold your own in a competitive environment with challenges and obstacles of many kinds. If all you do is change location and do not change yourself somehow, you will have the same inner liabilities wherever you go, the same prejudices, the same doubts and flaws. If you have been relegated to the sidelines because people find things about you to dislike, moving away and starting over in a new setting will not magically make people accept you because, eventually, people will find the same things to dislike and you will be back where you left off, on the sidelines, once again.