Your lifestyle is what I say it is! Oh really?

Did someone ever tell you about this great,  must-see “art” exhibition appearing at the local museum? So you traipse all the way down there, pay your admission, look at the piece and think: ‘Wow. This really is a piece of garbage. What were they thinking?”

We all know that “Art” has a different meaning to everyone.  So do other “value concepts” such as “Lifestyles.”

If you ask your buying prospect to think about their lifestyle, they will tell you about the actual things they engage in: “I do a lot of reading. I go to church. I spend time at my child’s school. I eat at seafood restaurants. I play golf. I make pottery, etc…”

They will answer you in specific, tangible terms that are real to them, rather than lofty concepts such as  “I am literary. I am religious, I am a family person, I like food.  I am athletic. I am artistic etc…”

Their disclosures about their detailed lifestyle activities actually helps you zoom in on a hyperlocal level to the neighborhoods that best meet their lifestyle needs.  Alternatively, if they simply tell you that they are a family person, what does that mean?  Do you think that every neighborhood in the city that has 3br 2ba is going to meet their needs? Of course not! You have to do your homework to dig deeper and truly satisfy this home buyer.

A “concept” lifestyle search is far too broad to be meaningful to the hyper local self-interested individual, rather than the community-interested individual.   “Concept” lifestyle search helps you globally think about a direction, but it fails at giving you the most personally relevant and individualized final destination.  It is a bit like thinking that you want to live in a city with good weather and then getting to that very big place and assuming that all houses in that large metro are right for you.

SpatialMatch takes a very direct, individual-oriented, intentionally self-centered approach to the idea of Lifestyle Search.  SpatialMatch believes that only you know how to define your lifestyle and you will define it by the activities that you do in your life. The relative location between your collection of activities is paramount and will help you decide which neighborhood that you want to live in.

This is a far different approach than some of today’s computer algorithm’s that pretend to know where you should live if you say that you are “a family person” (gee, let’s put that person in a 3br 2ba suburb).

Letting someone else’s algorithm tell you about your lifestyle is a bit like someone reading your horoscope for today.  The so-called psychic always offers something “almost right” and relevant to you (and by the way, millions of others) in the horoscope.

But can you really act on that information with confidence?  Is that information going to put you 30 miles away from the one place you frequent the most (gym, library, chiropractor) because some vague algorithm said this formula meets your overall needs, at least, according to its calculations.

So, next time someone or some math formula tells you who you are and where you should live, ask yourself: Do they really know me better than I know myself? Really, do they?

Or would I be better off using SpatialMatch’s, hands-on, personalized search technology and take a look at the different neighborhoods and lifestyle amenities right on a map? There I can see where all my lifestyles amenities are going to be located and feel if this is the right place for me? An algorithm is not going to do that for you, but you can do that with SpatialMatch.