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...

Friday, July 4, 2008

4th of July

Today our friends brought their stuff over to stay the night and we all headed out to walk around and explore TriBeCa, after brunch at Bubby's. We went to Canal street and then headed in to Little Italy. We came back to the apartment, grilled some sausages and then went up to the roof to watch the fireworks in a light drizzle. Then we headed over to Greenwich village for some bar hopping and ended up at this place called Cachaca that had live jazz and was totally empty. It cracked me up because the bartender had gone home since it was slow so we ended up all pouring our own drinks and made a party! Hung out with the band afterwards for a bagel nearby. Great time...
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