I first lived in California as an ex-pat in my early twenties back in the 1990s. When I moved over here, I thought of it more as a short-term thing, an adventure. I didn’t have many belongings, most of my things fit in a suitcase and anything else I left at my parents’ house. Consequently, I never settled. I always knew I could move back and that set the tone for my time in California. We didn’t have very much money, so didn’t make any of those large furniture purchases, our cars were cheap runarounds, we rented our apartment. Everything felt disposable. So when I felt the need to start settling down, I really wanted to make those roots in the UK and didn’t feel I was leaving too much behind by leaving California. [read the rest…]
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