Why New Britain?

Most of the friends I grew up with in New Britain moved away and stayed away.
When I was still young, I came back from the west coast after a particularly tumultous series of traumatic events, for what I assumed would be a temporary breather before I moved on to more interesting places. Instead, I became enmeshed and comfortable and somehow never did leave, primarily because of the tightknit community and new friends I made, most of whom did not grow up here and have stayed by choice.

That was a long time ago. I never did leave, and I live here now with my two children, who attend public elementary school in our wonderfully rich, diverse, open-minded community,--- a nurturing, affordable and realistic place to raise kids.

Always adventurous, I never thought I'd be one to say such a thing, but I'm not sure I can imagine myself ever living anywhere else. On the other hand, I've never been all that predictable.