I originally had mine mounted on /, to make them easy to type. But that set one of my highly opinionated friends wretching, so I re-mounted them to /media/<user>/ to placate him and symlinked them to my home directory instead.

It’s frustrating how often Linux systems, when approached with a “where is the canonical location for <X>?” question, have an answer ancient use cases practically no one has anymore, but no satisfying answer for extremely common use cases like permanently mounted backup drives, where to put web server hosted files, or even where to install applications that don’t come from package managers (/opt/? /usr/bin/? /home/<USER>/.local/?).