In a few days I'll be moving back to Boston, a city that I love and am glad to be moving back to, especially because I still have a network of friends there.
I've mentioned elsewhere that shortly after graduating from college I moved to Viet Nam where I made some friendships I plan to invest in for the long haul. I feel like I finally started growing up there and I experienced a lot of things that showed me a lot about myself. For example: I learned not to be so angry all the time. I learned lots about what I want out of a romantic relationship and that yeah, even bringing home the prettiest girl at the bar can be a let down (for multiple reasons).
To prep for my latest move, I've been pounding the pavement and using my network to get jobs. Turns out that lots of places want to hire me for professions I've left behind because I didn't feel like they would take me places, but that is turning out not to be true. I've also been re-cementing friendships via creative outlets. In that time, I was also able to meet lil and some of the wonderful people she surrounds herself with; people I hope to keep in touch with and learn more from (thanks lil!).
One of the things lil and I talked about was "not having time" for certain things. Another thing we talked about was hubski (duh) and also the mix of people that we encounter in this third-place that is real and yet not "real". I know that there is a great deal of life experience on hubski, as well as a younger component that seems to be very hungry to begin having those experiences (though they're already having them).
So, the question I pose is: how has moving to a new locale changed your life? If you could do it all again, would you have chosen to move somewhere else?