Don't let your creative juices be stymied by lame excuses like "If I only lived in Yosemite," "If I only could take vacation in the sandstone slot canyons of the American Southwest," and "If I was only close to an ocean."
Big deal. If you did all you'd probably do is make more of the same clichéed photos we've already seen.
Great photos happen anyplace a skilled photographer happens to be.