Moving To A New City Is Just Like Starting A Relationship
I fall in love with cities the way some fall in love with people.
I fall in love with cities the way some fall in love with people.
At 21, I ended a five year relationship with my first real love. I watched helplessly as all the plans we had made disintegrated in front of me. There went any house-buying-child-rearing-dreams I had naively been counting on. As a life-saving effort to start anew, I quickly wrote down “Move to a major city (12-13-2009).” And in parenthesis next to it, “(for a new beginning)”.
You will hurt people. Maybe even crush them. You are going to live in a dark place of imbalance where you can’t quite afford the rent and the job market has turned its back on you.