Moving to Utah

[June 2009] It's official - we are moving [back] to Utah in August. While there are things I will miss about NY, there are things I definitely won't.

Things to be missed:
*Everything in walking distance
*All kinds of good food everywhere
*Not having to own a car or drive anywhere
*NYs uniqueness (i.e. Ninjas on the corner, the man with the dancing puppet dolls in grand central, people in costume in the middle of March, the subway mariache band, etc etc)
*Broadway
*The Museums
*Street fairs
*Bagels/Pizza
*Corner pubs, Irish pubs
*Diversity
*Central Park - all the parks for that matter.
*Pro Baseball and Football - Mets, Jets, Yankees, Giants
*Convenience of Cabs
*Abundance of butcher shops
*Food and Grocery Delivery!
*Dunkin Donuts

Things not to be missed;
*The smell of stinking garbage or urine on the way to the train
*Pigeons and pigeon poo
*Graffiti
*Bomb plots
*Subway delays in the middle of winter or at night. Actually any subway delays at all.
*Always having to walk the dogs during rain, sleet, snow, heat (never being able to just let them out the back door)
*Absence of grass
*3 hours of commuting each day to go 8 miles
*Thinking that 1700$ a month for a one bedroom 800 sq ft apartment is a "steal"
*Tourists, everyhwere.
*Finding a parking spot
*Walking to trains/work in pouring rain, freezing cold
*Cost of food and beer
*6.5 hours for a round of golf (not including the time it takes to get to the course and back - add another 1.5 hrs for that!)