After six years in San Francisco, these vagabond shoes are longing to stray.
Yep. As the song goes, I’m going to make a brand new start of it in old New York in just a few weeks.
When I moved from New York to San Francisco in 2006 I had barely started a fledgling Myspace blog, I had never written a novel, and was a junior literary agent making the leap to full agent.
Now I’ve been blogging ever since, I’ve written four novels, three of which have or will be published, and I’m making my career in social media, which barely even existed when I moved.
I’m going to miss San Francisco and my Bay Area people a lot, but I’m also really excited to be reconnecting with my New York friends and to have new adventures in a new place. I’m also happy to be staying with CNET; I’m just transferring over to the New York office.
Oh – and if anyone has apartment leads in New York: all appreciated!
Sorry to those I haven’t gotten to tell in person, and if you’re in New York, let’s hang out when I’m there!
Ditmas Park in Brooklyn by the B express to Manhattan. Best 'hood in NYC. Tons of literary types, affordable apartments in prewar buildings and Victorian houses. Best coffee shops in NYC (Qathra and Cafe Madeline). Within walking distance of Prospect Park. Trust me on this—it's a not-so-well-kept secret.
That's exciting! Good luck with the apartment hunt!
This will be an adjustment. You're one of the things I think of when I think of San Francisco.
This will be an adjustment. You're one of the things I think of when I think of San Francisco.
I have no idea why that showed up twice.
Congrats, Nathan. I'm sooooo jealous.
*curses US immigration rules*
Welcome home, sir.
Amen David, particularly given how Ireland welcomed me when I emigrated as a child from New York to Cork many years ago.
Nathan, I hope you flourish in New York at least as well as you did in San Francisco. Incidentally, is New York not your wife's home town?
Brooklyn, nice! You might be neighbors with Sarah Jessica Parker 🙂
Oh! We'll miss you here. I hope you'll make it back to the Bay Area when your books come out because I'm willing to trek across the Bay but not across the country to attend your readings! Good luck with the move, and I look forward to the New York incarnation of your blog.
A long time coming, Nathan, but congratulations on the move. Growth always comes w/ change and that's always good.
I've lived in seven states, D.C., and two foreign countries. Each made impressions on me, most good,
a few less memorable, but they all went in the experience bag that we all carry around.
I spent 20 years in D.C., traveled all the way from Maine's rocky coast to beaches of Florida but find
CA fits my lifestyle now. Like a pair of old shoes.
Good luck w/ all your adventures to come!
Jack