New York official

My lease is signed and flight is booked. Sophia and I have started the process of moving my family and our belongings to New York officially.

I’m trying to manage my sadness of leaving San Francisco by getting excited by New York and everything it has to offer. In my almost 7 years since leaving New York, I’ve almost forgotten just how much there is to do pretty much everywhere.

Despite living in the city for almost 5 years, I barely even explored other parts like Brooklyn. I spent an hour last night doing a quick Google maps search of the surrounding area and was thrilled to see everything to do so close by. It will undoubtedly be a ton of fun living in New York again.

I’m especially excited to have coworkers again in the office. I’ve really missed the camaraderie of having coworkers. Zoom just isn’t the same and I just simply miss being able to sit down and have lunch with someone on the team and chat about life.

Having the team together where we can collaborate and grind things out together will be a huge perk and I plan to be in office at least 4 days a week to take advantage of that.

For the next few weeks though - it’s going to be a lot of planning and packing. I’m fortunate that we have the ability to pay for movers and make things just a bit easier overall. When I left 7 years ago, I packed all my belongings in boxes and had to take it to Penn Station in order to avoid a multi-thousand dollar move.

Fortunately, we don’t have to go through that again but moving a 6 month year old across the country also poses a lot of challenges. It’ll be a stressful few weeks but I’m excited to be on the other side of the move.