I'm not old enough to have been an active agent in any of my moves. You're not going to see my confessions here unless I'm being paid by the word, but the bottom line is I've seen three major moves and several smaller changes of scenery. There's now the prospect of moving to university. Naturally I'm not the one making the call on my own acceptance but I can at least choose where I might want to go.

Assuming you're asking for advice on your situation: I think the first thing that needs to be established is that moving will change your life. You've acknowledged that. Other people's posts are evidence. This:

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.

shows that you're not relinquishing control over your own life. That's good. My most recent move was 5 years ago when I was 12 and thus fell at the beginning of what I'd consider particularly formative years. I can't quite fathom how backpacking around Vietnam brought you closer to spiritual oneness. I can, however, appreciate that some circumstances will offer you opportunity and that the onus is on you to take it. I was disappointed with where I'd moved to — it was a proprietary downsizing, and that can be taken symbolically. The objective minimisation of what I could do (fewer jobs here, worse schooling, fewer friendships, etc.) led to a perceptual minimisation. It's only now — and possibly in light of the fact that there is more personal freedom coming my way — that I'm starting to do something with where I've moved to and the people I've met.

Firstly, nothing I'm doing in this year is going to be lasting, this is more of a stepping stone. I don't like where I'm living; there's not enough here for it to be more than a stepping stone. Nonetheless, I'm happy that I'm using it for a — any purpose — purpose and I wish I'd started sooner.

Your second question is nullified in my instance. I didn't do anything in the moving process and I didn't do anything once the moving was over. In the future, I hope to move into the city. I see the stupidity in my self-fulfilling prophecy of minimisation. I think moving to a city would only foster my rejection of that error.

I couldn't locate Boston on a map and even less do I know what it's really like but I can imagine you're going to feel your life accelerate a bit. There's going to be a lot to take in. You'll even have to familiarise yourself with such minutiae as the commute to work. I think that's good. I don't know the context of your "not having time" discussion, but it may seem that there is a lot of commotion around your tidy plan. You shouldn't let it infect though. You have plenty of time but do not waste it. Arrive and observe your situation and move on from there. You've implied that you're now seeing the possibility of progression in several careers and you're going to choose from those too. There are plenty of factors that decide which job you're going to wind up in. It might be a simple income comparison, or how passionate you are about the work, or whether you're buddy-buddy enough with the boss to bed for a promotion — the point is that it's all just strategy. Map out where you are and where you're going.

While conjecture is a sweet solace, I can't just do it all again and neither can you. That's implied by the very usage of the conditional could — so don't waste time. Cynical inaction is a habit for those with too much life left or those with very little.