Moved to NW MA. I really miss my friends, and having so many great restaurants with such diversity of cuisines, and there are a lot more jobs available back there. Also there are way fewer people who think the election was stolen, or who flaunt campaign signs for aspiring politicians who want to ban LGBT people from all public life. Well, except when they hold an event they choose Boston, and then they come crawling out of the woodwork.

But there are a lot of upsides, too. I left just before the turning point wherein the MBTA went from bad to un-fucking-acceptable. There’s no traffic here unless there’s a big accident. Parking is cheap and no big deal. Rent is cheapER. There’s lots of cool antique ephemera shops that could never stay afloat in Boston.