Nomacademic
It is now exactly one and a half years since I saw both, my wife and son, off to school. My son left home to start as a a freshman at UC San Diego, and my wife became a Full Professor at NYU in New York. So what am I still doing here in the Bay area? I love it here. But more so, it is home for the entire family and someone needed to stay here to keep it that way. Even though we cover three locations: East Bay, Upper West Side, and La Jolla, home is mainly in the Bay area. It's where all the "stuff" remains. It's where the extended family comes together for festivals and where we spend all our holidays. My wife and I spend time in both NY and the Bay area. We try to spend this time together, moving between locations. Whether this is a commuting situation I do not know, but it hardly feels like that. A commute usually means one fixed point and the other one moves. In our case we both move back and forth, a lot together. And our son drives up and down from San Diego, se...