re-nest: Brooklyn Wind-Down

Why?

After 14 years of LA, the things we didn't like about living here finally wore us down and we decided to move away. Our first choice was Portland, Oregon. After months of interviewing, neither of us could secure a job. We turned our sights to the next city on the list, New York. We lined up jobs and moved at the end of March 2008.

Apparently this was a bad idea. Things were not as they seemed and New York was not a good fit. We learned some good, hard lessons about life. We moved back to LA (four months later!) because the most important things were:

- be with our friends and close to our sisters

- advance our careers in a market we understand

- enjoy a low cost of living so we can save & travel

This is what makes us happy and apparently we had to move away to get our priorities straight. We still LOVE NEW YORK! We just enjoy it more as tourists...

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Brooklyn Wind-Down

Sunday was beautiful and much nicer with no wind. We spent the day exploring Brooklyn. We started off in Park Slope, a beautiful neighborhood full of incredible architecture and trees! I couldn’t believe all the Brownstones. Lots of people were having “Stoop Sales” (that’s like a garage sale but they don’t have garages). We walked through Prospect Park and saw 585 acres of trees turning colors! We walked back through the neighborhood boutiques to the subway to catch a ride to DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass). We took in the sight of the New York Skyline, then walked across Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan. We ended the tour with a pretzel & hot dog from a street cart and sat by a fountain.