I travel mostly as a "commuter" these days spending a week in my office and a week in my home office, plus side trips for clients and conferences.

As for consulting, it is very taxing at times. Depending on that specialty you may spend all your time in Manhattan living it up on per diem and living in a swany corp apt or time square hotel.

OR

You can also get stuck for 6 months in places like Bridgewater, NJ where everything closes at 9pm and you are flying out on the 7pm EWR flight on friday night being "20th in line for take off". Jersey is filled with rich companies (many drug companies) that love to take on consultants!
most of them are to far out of the way for many trips to NYC.

I spent many a winters "livining" in Miami, but hiking it up to the NorthEast for weekly.