My friend Marlene pulled up stakes and moved from San Francisco to New York City last year. Not so remarkable, you may think. People do it all the time. Hell, New York is probably cheaper than San Fran by now, but I want to give Marlene a pat on the back for doing what some people might not have the nerve to do. Sure, kids go back and forth from coast to coast all the time.
New graduates show up for awhile and then move on.
My twenty-seven year old friend Amy has moved between New York City and San Francisco a total of four times in the past eight years. My friend Carol escaped from her parent's home in the New Jersey suburbs to the Bay Area a dozen times when she was in her early twenties and didn't have a dime. But Marlene is fifty-nine years old. She's not a kid anymore. She doesn't couch surf, cocktail waitress or pick up odd jobs here and there.