Why we’re leaving California.

Taxes traffic pollution mansions mansions celebrity culture fake boobs. These are the reasons why we initially moved to California, but things have changed my sponsor for this week's video is Squarespace more on them later for the past three years. We've called Los Angeles home. And for the most part besides 2020. It's been pretty great. It was the pandemic that got us to take a step back and really

We think about where we saw our future it's always difficult to move on to let go but sometimes that's what you need to do to grow. So, I think in order to really understand why we're deciding to leave Allah, it helps understanding what drove us to move to LA to begin with. So, do you remember those reasons? Like obviously we met in New York City. Yeah October 2014 in Manhattan. We moved in a year later..

And we lived in New York for another year. No another almost two years. I love the spontaneity that the city encourages. So like, you know, the bars are always like filled with people bustling cafes and you're like really in the thick of it. So like I just remember what I life used to be like in Brooklyn and like come home from work on a Wednesday. You know, I have so much to talk about and be like wait, let's just go pop down to our local wine bar on the same block grab a while..

Wine a bowl of mussels and talk it over and it was kind of like no fast and easy in that sense. But New York is also a very very difficult city, which compelled us to eventually move. Yeah. I think there was there was like multiple reasons for why we initially left New York for La. I think a big reason for you was was New York started to feel like a grind even the littlest things like going to do groceries or doing a laundry every week. I just found such a burdened chore..

Um, well you did laundry asking Matt to do laundry. Yeah was just like we just did laundry. But yeah, so it just got to a place where every day I felt really frustrated like commuting on the subway was just such a frustrating experience the energy of the city. That was like constantly go go go. I found that really like it didn't affect you. It really affected me. Like I constantly felt like if I wasn't living my best life and.

and brunch every day and you know doing a million things and checking out the latest gallery opening and doing this and doing that and like then I was living a sad life and the pressure of not constantly doing a million things in New York like the social pressure of that really starts to affect me where I like all I wanted to do internally was just chill out, but then externally, I was feeling this friction of like, well, I need to be doing a million things and there's a hundred things happening this weekend that are all supposed to be amazing..

Using and I'm not doing a single one of those things because all I'm doing is sitting on the couch which is like in New York is like forbidden. Um, so it got to this place but I just really desperately craved a guilt-free like chill social life. Yeah, and I think that when you think about like a chill life you tend to think about a place like California and Lala he's gonna be leaving excited about new adventures to come change is good. It doesn't matter what anyone tells you..

So that was kind of like the the social reasons for why we decided to move to California. And then of course, we also thought if we're settling down if we're living in the United States and we want to be able to quickly be with both of our families in Sydney and in New Jersey quickly quickly quote unquote more quickly. I mean when we're in New York, that's a 23 hour trip to get home to Sydney and the jet lag from that trip is.

The brutal expensive really? All right, if we live in California, that's like a 13-hour flight to Sydney. It's a five to six hour flight back to see my family on the East Coast. This is a nice middle ground for us. And I think maybe what we didn't realize at the time was that actually moving to La would actually make it more difficult to see either of our families funny because like we made that, you know, as you said a driving reason to move to LA was.

that we could be in between our two families and we could see it's so ironic and then we could see them more which if you stop to think about it and it took us three years to realize this all it did was make us see them less because we had moved to a place where neither of our families were and it was just like this compromise this middle ground this island out on its own where we were in the middle of our two families at this point. We're going to be married. We were going to have a dog we were going to be planning to have kids..

Ed's and potentially looking to buy a house. And now none of that has happened when you look at 20:20 a lot was happening to us. They were a lot of things that were completely outside of our control and all of these things and events are getting pushed off in canceled because of what happened with covid but us making the decision taken control and saying, you know what like actually we don't have to just sit on.

our hands for the next year or who knows how long we can actually make a decision that will impact our future in a way that we wanted to head. And so, you know spending more time with family owning less stuff being more light and free like those aren't easy decisions to make but in the end, I think it was us regaining control of our lives in a way that we didn't feel like we had just going through the pandemic this year and realizing how much like life in California just wasn't meeting our bar..

Like just wasn't up to Snuff for us with being able to like satisfy family time. Like will finding it hard to get a flight back to see your family and then having to quarantine before seeing them and then finding a flight to Australia was, you know virtually impossible. Hmm. So it just made us feel like California is you know, it's so important to have family and friends around you and California just wasn't that place for us. Yeah, I think what's important?.

In to say because there's a lot of these videos out there like why we're leaving California why we decided to leave Los Angeles and a lot of the times it's like the taxes are too high. Like the government is suppressing my right to live freely and that's not that wasn't the case for us. Like if you think about it the past three years have been heavily pivotal for both of us huge for our lives with our work and our personal lives. I brought a lot of amazing things to both our lives. Yeah, that's where I started my YouTube channel..

This is where you started your business. So many I think things that we now are very grateful for happened in La I think in the same way that we miss New York and miss so many things about New York because like you are tied to that place because it holds so many of those important Memories and Milestones in your life. And so I think that like will look back on La and California in a very similar way that we look back on Brooklyn and New York..

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Kyle neighbors must take me by now. Probably in Saturday night your neighbors or your roommate and I had like seven glasses of wine and just sat out on the balcony and I was singing till midnight and I was playing this like Ozzy Classics Spotify playlist and was actually included classic riding on the horse. And yeah, we're up in the sky little darling and if you fall pick you up pick you up..

I forgot that I thought that was gonna be the one where he's really proud of you. Why that I know the lyrics. Yeah. I know, you know Ozzy culture 101. I got a picnic bar in the closet over there that I've been saving for a rainy day. This is sure. I've been the dream. Thanks for watching guys and we'll see you in another video in the future..

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