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Kim and I moved to our new home<\/a> in West Linn on July 1st. Although we’re only 8.5 miles (and about twenty minutes) from the condo we owned in Portland, I haven’t been back to our former neighborhood since we moved. Yesterday, I decided to spend a few hours hanging out at some of my old haunts.<\/p>\n

I stopped at the “pot shop” to pick up some sleeping aids. I bought Tally new chew sticks from the pet store. I spent half an hour browsing at the used book store for sci-fi classics. And I stopped to drink a glass of wine at the bottle shop. It was fun to be back in Sellwood once again, if only for a few hours.<\/p>\n

While I was sipping my pinot noir, a friend came in. “It’s good to see you,” she said. “How’s life in the new house? Do you miss Sellwood?”<\/p>\n

“We do and we don’t,” I said.<\/p>\n

“What do you mean?” she asked.<\/p>\n

“Well, there are pros and cons to every location, right? I don’t think there’s any one perfect place to live. I miss this wine bar, for instance, and being able to walk to all of the different restaurants. But I don’t miss the traffic and the crowding and the high cost of living.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, I can see that,” my friend said. “But I couldn’t live where you do. I don’t like to drive. I gave up my license three years ago, and I never want to get it back. I like being able to walk for everything.” She has a perfectly valid point.<\/p>\n

Driving home, I thought more about our conversation, about the differences between where we live now and where we lived six months ago.<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/p>\n

Pros and Cons to Everywhere<\/h2>\n

As an adult, I’ve had six different homes in 25 years: the small house in the small town, where Kris and I moved after we got married; the big house in Portland that she and I bought in 2004; the apartment in downtown Portland that I rented after our divorce; the riverfront condo I bought in 2013; the condo that Kim and I rented in Savannah, Georgia; and now this cottage on an acre of land outside West Linn.<\/p>\n

I’ve loved aspects of each of these places — but there have also been things I’ve disliked about each location.<\/p>\n

Here, for example, are the pros and cons of living in the condo:<\/p>\n