Mac Slow to Change Locations

I've been noticing that my Mac is slowing down when I'm changing locations. I don't quite recall when it started happening, because it's been gradually getting slower and slower. Now, it takes about 3 minutes before everything comes up and the network connections come back online after I switch locations.
It used to be so fast and instant. Any ideas as to what's causing this or even how I could track down what the cause is?

A reboot doesn't help. 
I still have over 2GB free. 8GB total.
It seems like this is something that's been happening gradually over the last year. I've noticed that I need to give the Mac a few minutes when I make the location switch.
I don't see a process in Activity Monitor that's hogging the CPU (other than MS Remote Desktop Connection, which I killed).
It's very odd behavior, and I'm just curious how to troubleshoot this further. Would there be something in a log somewhere?

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