Moving to Boston

I'm finally moving out! I'm going to be independent and responsible and all those grown up things I'm supposed to be at 24-years old, right? Wrong.

I'm living in NY right now and have lived here my ENTIRE life (including college) so it's time for a change... so that's why I'm moving to Boston!

This decision was not made overnight. I've been thinking about moving out of NY for the past year actually. The thoughts became a reality when I started dating a guy who lived about an hour outside of Boston. I had never even been to Massachusetts before meeting him so it was all very new and exciting.

So my now ex-boyfriend, we'll call him Mr. Heartbreaker simply because he's always the one to break the girl's heart and end the relationship (I was girlfriend #4 who this happened to), introduced me to the wonderful city of Boston.

Fast-forward 7 months later and he dumped me because "it just wasn't working out" so after crying for about 3-weeks straight, I decided I wanted to change my life. I didn't really like my job and I knew I would never move into Manhattan so it dawned on me, what's keeping me in New York?

I decided to start researching all of my options. I considered Philly, DC, Boston, Atlanta... I even emailed my ex-boyfriend and asked him what he thought about me moving to D.C.? He was concerned that I would never finish grad school (I had started the program after we broke up) and advised me to stay in NY for one more year until I had my Master's in Childhood Education. That reason was not good enough for me to stay... I wrote back that I could always transfer schools and that I needed a change - a challenge if you will. I wanted to meet new people and make new friends (plus, it didn't help that 4 of my 6 girlfriends are all engaged and getting married next year).

That's when the real research began...