It took such a long time to get here given 3 years of steadfast intent, but I am home.
I have been flooded with so much input that I can't even parse all that has me smitten about this setting.
I'm abandoning the departure thread because my shared thoughts are focused on the life of the immigrant rather than of the emigrant.
With the exception of camping, I have never spent the majority of so many consecutive days outdoors. In Florida and Colorado, I rarely desired going out... I had to force it. Here, work and sleep are probably going to be the only things to keep me indoors for more than a couple hours at a time. At least, I see it being that way for the next couple of months.
Context: I am in Taito-ku, which is one of the 23 wards of Tokyo. Within Taito-ku or Taito City, I am in the Matsugaya district, which is in between Ueno and Asakusa districts. It's lively, everywhere. You can pretty much go 6 blocks in any direction and feel like you've hit the center. It's simultaneously quiet away from the bigger roads. It's strikingly clean. I'm already trying to figure out how I can stay here forever or at least two years.
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