And also a little bit about why I hated it as much as I did. Lots of people were moving to the Pacific Northwest, Arizona, and other places. I thought this was a stupid idea. I like Los Angeles. But we had a run of bad luck where we were victims of crime six times in eighteen months, and moving away started to seem like a good idea.
Stress often leads people to do stupid things.
In it was an article about Austin, Texas. I went to college at Rice University in Houston, Texas. I remembered people there talking about Austin like it was some kind of Shangri-La, and the next thing I knew, we were moving there. We spent 1,476 days living in Austin, Texas. I hated it.