
We’re also right near where the cable cars meet, and while the Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason lines are usually too busy to catch, we can (and do!) often catch the California cable car, doesn’t get old. Between Amazon and Google Shopping Express there’s not a lot we can’t get delivered, and San Francisco’s public transport has been pretty good, even if most of it is by bus. Living without a car has also been surprisingly easy. Our two cats moved with us, and they seem to love it too!Ĭozmo looks out the window at her new city We worried a little about moving in to a high-rise apartment building, especially given that we had to sign a lease before seeing our apartment, but it’s turned out very well the building is great, and our apartment is quiet and comfortable, and seems to have plenty of room despite being smaller than our old house.

Of those adjustments, though, I think apartment living has probably been the easiest.

After three months in San Francisco we’re feeling quite settled now, but through the stresses of moving, sorting out paperwork, and learning to live in a new city and country, making my morning coffee has been a reassuringly routine part of each day.Īustralia and the US are similar in a lot of ways, of course, but we’ve still had to do a surprising amount of adjustment - much more than I expected. Today I finished a pack of 100 coffee filters that wouldn’t normally be much of a milestone, but this is the first pack of filters I’ve finished since moving to the US.
