Dammitall

I grew up in a tiny WASP-y suburb of New York City that I never felt comfortable in until I was ready to leave there for college. Going away to school in the city—down the road only twenty minutes or so—probably shouldn't have qualified me as a real "New Yorker," but I embraced that identity as my own while I was there. To this day I miss New York; as far as I can tell I could see myself making a home there as an adult, despite having only really lived there inside the bubble of my college experience.

I feel reasonably comfortable in the town my partner and I have been living in for the past seven years. It's hard to believe we've been here so long, and at times harder to believe that we've ended up here at all. I am happy we purchased a house here and I look forward to spending the next several years making our house into the beautiful home we know it can become. I'd be even happier finding work closer to home to trim down my commute and make me feel more connected to it during the workweek.

Though I miss New York, I don't envision us moving there anytime soon for any reason other than some sort of absolutely fantastic, can't-refuse job opportunity. I guess I've found my home, for now.

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If one million people replaced a two mile car trip once a week with a bike ride, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 50,000 tons per year. If one out of ten car commuters switched to a bike, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 25.4 million tons per year. [2milechallenge.com]