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I. Things i’ll miss about NYC

awesome pizza
walking across the street whenever the eff you want
the subway smell
using the f word like a pronoun
about 50,000 restaurants
carrying around a metro card
testimony meeting in our church
working with the youth in our church
Josh Gabby Liz’s fam nearby
Good friends we have here
Fireflies
supergreg the one time we hung out
Going for a run along the Hudson River with Manhattan in the background.
being able to konk the car in front of you with your bumper and then konking the car in back of you until your car fits.
Rita’s italian ice
Halal chicken cart
Welch’s grape soda

II. Things i’ll not miss about NYC(+Hoboken)

parking
trying to park
trying to drive
traffic
“best by 09/18/07 – (in NYC 09/14/07)” – having to drink milk out of a container with this on it and wondering about those missing 4 days….
cranking out long long crazy hours at work
two hours/day devoted to commuting
coworkers wondering what secrets i’m not telling them about mormons(new episode of big love was on hbo last night)
paying $2000/month to RENT a 700-square-foot apt.
having my knees hit the wall of said apt when i’m on the john.
all the guido dudes and their narsty ladies.
Dogs in Strollers and people treating their pets like little people.

III. Things im not looking forward to in Utah:

running into those random people you kind of remember from high school/college
ponzi schemes / pyramid schemes / network marketing proposals
knowing all the restaurants
being scared of traffic cops with nothing better to do.
having to deal with the influence of popular opinion(no one really cares what you think or do in nyc which can be nice – I can wear a cape to work here if i wanted to – not that i’d want to, it’s just nice to have the option).
anti-mormons – the ones who make their decisions based on the opposite of what the church does.
all of the crappy billboards and ads – from concept to execution, and many times the product(also the abundance of home + car billboards)
decals depicting calvin peeing on some sort of logo or graphic
stickers and/or jackets with images of the tazmanian devil(i don’t know if they’re actually in Utah still, but i see them in Times Square so I know they’re still popular in somewhere)

IV. Things im looking forward to in Utah:

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