Its 8:45 on a Monday night, I reach over call my local Sushi place, order our favorites, tell them to charge it to the credit card number (which they have on file), they have our address and phone number on file too, and it is here no later than 35 minutes…umm heaven!

Somehow, I don’t think I will be doing that much in my new town.

I will miss the immediacy of NYC: hailing a cab, going to a Chinese, Indian, Thai, British, Italian, bar food, Japanese, Turkish in the matter of minutes, chance encounters on the subway, running into your best friend on the street, having dessert delivered…it’s a great place for instant satisfaction.

But there is a new kind of immediacy I am looking to: jumping into a car and driving to get something. In NYC whenever we go to get boxes at the U-Haul, go to retrieve something largish from one of our offices, we have to either deal with a cab or get a zip car. While I love that these options exist, doing some stuff in NYC takes about ten extra steps compared to other places.   There are positives and negatives to living in many places.

Food for thought!

* There will be many posts like this in the next twelve days as I get ready to get out of here.