Considering the "place where you are" is important. Even if you are in a city where you've spent a lot of time, you should consider that it's always changing. We kindly joke that Pittsburgh doesn't change because the road work signs just move around the city, but how many people living outside the western Pennsylvania region realize that Google has a huge base here and Apple's newest offices are located here, too? Not the steel mill image that first comes to mind, huh? Second only to Silicon Valley for technology innovations, it's not the Smoky City any longer.
Jokes around New Orleans, Louisiana are that even if it changed, most tourists don't get past Bourbon Street so wouldn't remember if there were any changes. Southern California droughts typically bring wildfires and conservation warnings - but El Niño is about to bring some major changes, the first of their kind since 1950... Get out your rain boots!
You change as a person, too, and you have risk-shift. When younger, you may have been willing to "take more risks" when playing sports than you are now. But, maybe now your risks include traveling to new places or meeting new people when your younger years were not as adventurous outside the friends you knew from school. What risks are you willing to take now - either for fun or by educating yourself and venturing in a new direction?
You can't just lump things together with your old glasses anymore. In the article below, there are some very interesting changes to the world maps when looking at data in new ways. Slice and dice new information for your old ways of thinking - you may be pleasantly surprised and more prepared for the community around you.
http://www.businessinsider.com/eiu-global-risks-maps-2015-8
