Moving out
So after this past year+ of NYC nonsense and just stressing out at job partly because of other people leaving and it’s taken away so much of my free time to catch up with the additional responsibilities, just decided time to move out of Queens. This apartment has been my home since 2009 https://freakylynx.livejournal.com/2009/08/19/ outside my childhood home I’ve never lived anywhere nearly that long. It’s depressing to let go of something you’ve known for so long, though I’ve been becoming acquainted with that feeling in recent years (been a couple years since I’ve bought anything new for my comic collection... which is large enough at this point to become a serious space/transportation issue (I should have stopped sooner, I don’t know how I’m going to store all these things), I quit my gym membership which I had since like 2011 or so earlier this year (membership had been frozen during majority of lockdown but when they started opening up again I had to concede i wouldn’t be using it much and it was too much a drain on my wallet)).
So for time being my plan is to stay in a cheaper location outside the city until I figure things out, saving money will be good enough until then ;)
At least I’ll have better access to friends and my car outside the city, the people and activities that had made living in the city worthwhile have largely moved out or moved on at this point. It’s just not worth paying premium rent prices when I spend most of my time in like a five block radius of my apartment these days. And the final push was finding out that even when I return to the office I’ll probably be working only two days a week on-site... I can deal with a longer commute for two days a week.
So for time being my plan is to stay in a cheaper location outside the city until I figure things out, saving money will be good enough until then ;)
At least I’ll have better access to friends and my car outside the city, the people and activities that had made living in the city worthwhile have largely moved out or moved on at this point. It’s just not worth paying premium rent prices when I spend most of my time in like a five block radius of my apartment these days. And the final push was finding out that even when I return to the office I’ll probably be working only two days a week on-site... I can deal with a longer commute for two days a week.