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  • May
    26

    I can’t wait

    Filed under: Personal, throwaway posts; Tagged as:
    by Ben

    In just under a month, we’ll be closing the deal on our house and ship off from Massachusetts to New Mexico. A lot of people ask when they hear about the imminent relocation how I feel about the move. And the honest answer is that I’m very excited. Reasons for this excitement include (but are not limited to):

    1. Better weather
    2. Fewer allergies
    3. Great food
    4. Lower cost of living
    5. Cheap health insurance
    6. Working from home
    7. Listening to music while I work from home
    8. Great sunsets
    9. Martha feeling like her life is moving forward
    10. It’s a purple state, so my presence might actually make a difference for Barack

    I realize some of those sound redundant or are subsets of others, but they bear mentioning. Like the health insurance one. As a freelancer, I’ll be in charge of securing my own coverage. Here in Massachusetts, the group plan at work costs Free Press nearly $300 a month. In New Mexico, my individual plan will run something like $160. Which is insanely cheap. Anyway, we’re still planning our cross-country route at the end of June, but there’s a 50% chance we’ll wind up heading across Iowa on I-80. Anyone care to offer housing?  

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