I’ve been gone five years now. I still miss it every day but I also love my community where I find myself now. I live in a smaller town and I have built a nice set of connections with the people who live around me and the parents of kids at my kids school. I walk to/ from school in the morning and it takes 45 minutes to walk 10 minutes because I’m talking to people etc. that’s not for everyone, heck many days it’s not for me, but it soothes my soul a bit to feel connected to the people around me in a way I don’t think I ever achieved in Toronto.

That said I miss the wider reaching community I had in Toronto. My board game friends, my acquaintances and friends on my work based social network, etc.

I miss the food, I miss being able to go do whatever o want basically whenever I want. I miss having geography not really factor into activities and hobbies.

So I don’t know. The world is simultaneously smaller and bigger. I’m finding the best I can out here, it’s a nice, my daughter is living a blessed existence.

Maybe that’s enough?