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>>462
Hard fast rule: Aside from で without relation to the verb, it is almost always location of action (second to being a means to that action). There is nothing deceiving if you understand the logic dictating the language.

Understanding it as location of actions is easy for cases like 居る, because "being" is a special case, closer to a state, not an action performed (save any philosophical bullshit for languages which give a fuck). 住む is the same, to a lesser extent. Things get kind of confusing with 暮らす, which normally takes で, though plenty of people use に, especially in modifying clauses and noun phrases. After that, hard verbs, actions verbs, "doing" verbs will almost always take で with regard to location without any direction or movement.