Shock of the Day: I’m Moving to New Haven, Connecticut

Check your calendar. It’s not April 1st.

My wife, who is entering the sixth year of her PhD in Psychology, applied to several schools around the country for her final year of training, and was accepted to the only school in New Haven, CT that any of us have heard of: Yale. So we’re packing our stuff and moving East for 1-2 years.

East, where the winters are cold and the trees change color in the fall.

Yes, “that programming blogger from Los Angeles” is going to become “that programming blogger from Los Angeles who’s living in Connecticut for a couple years and then probably moving back to California, but most likely to the Bay Area.” I wonder if I can fit that on my business cards?

I’m in the process of reserving a couple of moving containers so we don’t have to drive a U-Haul across country (how many horror stories can you hear before you just won’t try it yourself?). I’ve contacted a company that can ship our cars. I’m finding renters for our house, and I’ve already scoped out the two 22″ widescreen Dell monitors I’ll be purchasing once we find our new, much larger living space (since New Haven is cheaper than L.A.).

As I mentioned in a previous post, I re-entered the world of consulting about 7 months ago when I once again opened the doors of my .NET consulting firm, The Numa Group. Since the majority of my workload is off-site development I’m in a great position to move across the country; all I need is a phone and a laptop…and two 22″ widescreen monitors.

Based on my initial research the tech community looks a little thin, but I have to imagine with all the brain-power at Yale that there are some really cool technology groups in the area. Also, if I want a big city tech fix it’s tough to beat a 90-minute train ride to New York City and a 2-hour ride to Boston.

I’m off to sell my surfboards and buy some coats. Big coats.

About Me: My name is Rob Walling and I'm a software developer living and working in Boston. I write about hiring, managing, and motivating software developers, in addition to random outbursts on improving development skills and software startups.

My consulting firm, The Numa Group, performs .NET development for clients throughout the United States. If you are in need of a .NET developer or architect, drop me a line.

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