It’s been a year since I uprooted my life and moved half way across the country to a place I barely knew filled with people I’ve never met. People still ask me why I did it. I still ask myself the same question. I spent my entire life in the Chicago area, save for college and a brief stint in my late 20s living in Florence, Italy (another urge to uproot and relocate). But something was pulling me to California, to this little town that most Midwesterners had never heard of. I