Big, big changes

I got the job on the West Coast I interviewed for last month.  It’s a nice school, with nice people, a great boss, apparently ZERO tolerance for assholes.  AND it’s a lot cheaper than New York City, with better weather.

So in a little more than three weeks, I’m packing up a U-Haul and driving 3000 miles with Junebug and Zuzu (who will be tranquilized the whole way, at least during driving hours).  And in about eight days, I will be pulling into my new town and setting up house.   And it might actually BE a house — I can get an entire house, with a yard and a gardener, for a few hundred bucks less than I pay for a studio in Brooklyn.  Probably within walking distance of campus, as well.

I’m both excited and anxious.  I’m also sad to leave New York and bracing myself for some severe culture shock.

13 Responses to “Big, big changes”


  1. 1 Rebecca K

    That’s incredible news! Congrats!

  2. 2 Jim

    Congratulations!

  3. 3 megankay

    ahhh! congratulations! this is so exciting! i hope it all goes well.

  4. 4 Elayne Riggs

    Wow, congratulations Zuzu! Have fun on the cross-country jaunt!

  5. 5 Lauren

    W00t!

    You know, whenever I think about moving to the east coast, I always think about how awesome the real estate prices are here.

  6. 6 D.

    Mazel tov! on the move!
    The bagels out here are sweet rolls.The subway doesn’t run all night.Blessedly, so far; no snow or ice.They may get your jokes. They may not.You cannot get late afternoon lunch. Forget it.Nobody cares about Brooklyn.Yiddish is pronounced a bit differently.I think that’s everything.

  7. 7 D.

    That was supposed to be a list.

  8. 8 maisnon

    WESS-SIDE! Congrats!

  9. 9 FashionablyEvil

    Congratulations and good luck with the move!

  10. 10 Linnaeus

    It ain’t bad out here. At all.

  11. 11 Unree

    Congratulations, zuzu. But aren’t West Coast housing prices high too?

  12. 12 Zuzu

    It all depends on where you’re coming from, Unree. They’re a lot lower than where I live, but some of my coworkers said they thought the prices were too high compared to where they had come from.

  13. 13 Ampersand

    Congratulations! This is really wonderful news. I hope it works out wonderfully for you.

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