Why is it called The Slow Flit?

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M and I spent a considerable amount of time one night trying to come up with a name for our blog. We came up with lots of options (some good and some not so much, but more on that later!). Ultimately, we crafted The Slow Flit and we both loved it and thought it fit perfectly. It probably deserves a bit of an explanation, though.

When we met in Los Angeles, she had lived in Seattle, Portland, Paris, and for a short time, San Diego. I had lived in Syracuse, Albany, San Francisco, Munich, and for a short time, London. Three years into our relationship found us moving to New York for her grad school, and two years after that sent us back to LA for my new position at FIM.

When I joined Shopflick a year ago, we together agreed that post-Shopflick (however long that was), we would try to move somewhere... exotic.

Seven days ago, we moved to Dublin.

Recently, people have been asking me a lot if M is homesick. That's a complicated answer, and I wouldn't try to answer it on her behalf. But to illustrate her mindset, let me set the scene...

We'd been living in Beverly Hills for about two and a half years. We were fully settled into life in LA. Our apartment building sold and we knew we would have to move soon (new owner wants to gut it and renovate). She had been volunteering for over a year at 826 LA. She had been taking German classes with Meg for over six months. An old friend and colleague of mine approached me about the company he joined, and said that they had two positions open in LA and one position open in Dublin.

M said to me "Well, of course we would take the Dublin position", and the next day she told me that she had dreamt about Dublin.

People have often asked... how long will we be living in Dublin?

For better or for worse, all I can say right now is that the question itself can only be answered in the past tense.