Moving Back to NYC
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I'm incredibly excited to say that I've officially moved back to New York City. Spending a year in Boston was great — I'm glad I got to experience working in person with my coworkers at Google Cambridge — but I've missed living in the city. It's hard to believe I haven't called this place home for the past two years.
New York is my favorite place in the world. To me, it feels like real-life GTA where anything can happen and you can do virtually anything at any time of day. You could literally go bowling at 3 AM and then grab Chinese food afterward. That energy is unmatched.
The city has always held a special place in my heart. I moved here at eighteen for school and lived in Manhattan for almost ten years. As cliché as it sounds, there's something truly special about New York, and being here is incredibly motivating for me — things just seem to move faster.
I'm excited to finally be back with so many of the friends I grew up with and to be surrounded by my creator friends again. Now that I'm self-employed, being around other creators and entrepreneurs who are also working for themselves will be great motivation to work harder.
It's funny to think about where I was when I first moved to NYC in 2013 versus where I am now. A lot can happen in a decade. When I first arrived, I wasn't a software engineer — I was just starting college and wasn't even sure what I'd study. Returning now, I'm sort of still a software engineer, but not in the traditional sense of being employed by a company. I'm living in a new neighborhood and in a very different kind of apartment than the one I had after graduating college.
I'm excited to see what this next year holds and what things will look like twelve months from now. Most things have felt like they've only gone up and to the right. I have some ambitious goals I'm gunning for this year — let's see if I can achieve them.
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