There's a bunch of reasons us folks who have been to the Inn wind up in and around Boston, eventually; it's the nearest big city that has a direct connection to Old Orchard Beach, if only by rail, so a lot of folks who wind up switched around come from there. If you're looking to change back and at a loose end, it's tempting to settle there so that logistics don't mess it up - they never posted to the blog, but I heard about one person whose borrowed identity was low on PTO, so they would drive up to Maine, sleep there, and then come back to Boston until they changed so that the person getting their old life back wouldn't get in too much trouble at work. And it's a pretty nice city; not Chicago or New York but it's got all the sports, plenty of museums, at least one restaurant from whatever cuisine you happen to like, and, relatedly, your various ethnic enclaves.
"Inn People" isn't really one of those, but I do think we need each other. You look at some entries from when this blog first started and there's someone who wound up really far from everyone else, they drop off the site, and when someone gets back in contact they've got a conspiracy wall that was apparently 10% informative and 90% paranoid. Or you can just lose track of who you were before, like this huge portion of your life just didn't matter. And given my personal history of losing myself, it's probably a good idea to have people around who can say "hey, Zee, what would Daryl think?"
(Is this always a good rule for an Inn Person? Probably not! Is it good for me to occasionally ask the question? More often than not!)
Plus, and I cannot stress this enough, the new job is full-time rather than freelance, offers health insurance, and only averages a little more than two days a week required in the office because my job entails leading in-person training sessions as well as project management, and there's enough hardware engineering/prototyping going on that a lot of the team is on-site anyway. Apparently my willingness to come in got me the position over a few people who insisted on being completely remote even though my "Zee" résumé isn't quite so good as my "Daryl + Elaine + Zee" one would be, if I could get people to believe in it.
So, that's me in Boston. I found a fairly decent condo in Dorchester, although the down-payment has nixed me doing any sort of real vacation for a couple of years. It's not quite on the subway, but one of those bike things is nearby, and that's probably better for me anyway.
Will I be here for good? Who knows, I may decide that even in a fairly Black neighborhood, this city lives down to its racist reputation and decide to go elsewhere. But for now, it suits me.
-Zee
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