BTW, studies have been done that show that happiness/unhappiness due to location and weather is transitory.
People in a hard cold Chicago winter think “wouldn’t it be nice to be in sunny CA”. And they do get an initial bump up in happiness after moving (which is why vacations may be good) but that soon fades, and over the long term, LA residents are no happier than Chicago residents.
That’s true with locale (and campus prettiness) as well. I’ve lived on both coasts and the Midwest and if I could live anywhere with the same job and lifestyle, I wouldn’t be where I am now (and I loved the Bay Area). But I also know that my overall happiness wouldn’t be affected because it wasn’t before by the locale I was in.