How's life on the west coast?

I got an email from a friend on the east coast today posing this question. We're not close friends, more like close business associates, but someone I trust (and who I still owe a HUGE favor). We haven't chatted since I moved to San Jose in June 2007.

For the first time, I stopped and asked myself how to honestly answer this question. No BS this time around... how do I feel about the move nearly one year later? The routine answer has been "things are great" for ten months. Heck, if T.K. had asked the question last week, I might have echoed that familiar answer. But today, I leaned back in my office chair and contemplated the answer to the query. It wasn't an in-depth examination of my inner thinkings, but rather a quick evaluation of the raw, unfiltered emotions of the moment (kind of like these blog posts).

I stared blankly at the monitor for about five minutes before reaching out for the keyboard. Eventually the words that flew back to the east coast were: "The jury is still out on the move. Someday's I think it's working out, other days I think it was a big mistake." It's the first time I've expressed that thought to anyone else. So that's where I am right now... not sure if my future lies here or elsewhere. Only time will tell if the grass was greener over the fence.