With Boston people go to college, work there, stay around, move to the 'burbs nearby (or faraway) and just chill. They stay around for almost a decade.
I don't know if it's true for Seattle. It's like people come here for job, stay for a few years as long as the jobs are squeezed out for their worth, and bail out to some other place. Obviously the generalization is for folks like us, and people I know generally. Even PK who's bought a house here -- a sign one might imagine would be a signal of one's desire to settle down on a location -- is bailing out after renting his place. It is unclear if it's a place to be around longer-term.
I need to learn to root down better, after the hangouts that are so much fun end, and I wake up the next morning, I realize I can't just show up at somebody's place (except I guess few friends and family), as much as I could to in Boston. To be fair, this is a new place and I haven't put in as much effort as I could into friendmaking and for some strange reason people seem to connect here using facebook and insta mostly which is a big hindrance for my style, but still. I'd like to be more rooted. More chill and hang, and also out and about. But chill and hang in a more connected way, not in a rushed funtimes manner. Dunno.
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