Big City Living

So I recently moved to a new city...much much bigger than anywhere I've ever lived (at least when I was old enough to remember).

Let me tell you something about moving to a city where you don't know anyone or anything in particular about the city.

You get lost.

A lot.

And don't listen to the crazy people.

It does not get better.

All you can hope is to learn your way to work and to a grocery store and home...and not necessarily interchangeably between all three.  If you can get from home to work and back.  Or home to groceries and back.  You can get away without knowing how to get from work to groceries to home.  That may just be a bit too much.

GPS in phones or an actually car GPS are little miracle workers.  I still don't want anything to do with them because it makes it way to easy for hackers to get your information.  But I'd never leave my house without my new Garmin!

And I still went to three different malls before I found the one I had originally set out in search for!

So rule number one of moving to a big city:

Expect to get lost.

Just acknowledge it and expect it to happen and you'll be a lot less frustrated.

I will probably never be able to get around without GPS.

(How people survived in the old days, I'll never know!)