I'm only now ready your older posts, having discovered your Substack on a plane from Bangkok to Krabi where we are now luxuriating in a seaside villa celebrating my 60th birthday. I may be late to the game but wanted to chime in on the California vs Key West choices if there is still time. Your accounting of a life in LA is pretty accurate, and places you in West Hollywood somewhere south of Melrose and east of La Cienega if you really want to fully act it out. Problem is, that house is likely a cool $2M these days and the taxes will make you want to hurl. But I would do it anyway. When we moved from California to Montana in 2008 I blogged about it when blogs were new and fresh and some people still tilted their heads at the word because it had gotten under my skin, that place, and I would move back in a heartbeat if I didn't have to work and remember those taxes being barfy thing. I named the blog California, A Love Story which sounds dreamy but also recounts hitting a deer the week before we moved and eating hot wings with frozen chapped fingers, the real deal I tell you. It's probably still out in the ether somewhere I'm guessing.
Oh and Key West is great for a week but not to live. Go for California if you can you will be glad you did.
I LOVE THAT MOVIE. So big and dumb and epic. And of course they de-gayified Achilles and Patroclus, of course they did. And Eric Bana is the consummate Hector. SO PRETTY
I'm only now ready your older posts, having discovered your Substack on a plane from Bangkok to Krabi where we are now luxuriating in a seaside villa celebrating my 60th birthday. I may be late to the game but wanted to chime in on the California vs Key West choices if there is still time. Your accounting of a life in LA is pretty accurate, and places you in West Hollywood somewhere south of Melrose and east of La Cienega if you really want to fully act it out. Problem is, that house is likely a cool $2M these days and the taxes will make you want to hurl. But I would do it anyway. When we moved from California to Montana in 2008 I blogged about it when blogs were new and fresh and some people still tilted their heads at the word because it had gotten under my skin, that place, and I would move back in a heartbeat if I didn't have to work and remember those taxes being barfy thing. I named the blog California, A Love Story which sounds dreamy but also recounts hitting a deer the week before we moved and eating hot wings with frozen chapped fingers, the real deal I tell you. It's probably still out in the ether somewhere I'm guessing.
Oh and Key West is great for a week but not to live. Go for California if you can you will be glad you did.
California is still calling me....
Well, California does this to me as well.
I LOVE THAT MOVIE. So big and dumb and epic. And of course they de-gayified Achilles and Patroclus, of course they did. And Eric Bana is the consummate Hector. SO PRETTY
We got a lot of enjoyment out of it. 😜😀😂