The Real Reason I Left LA for NYC. | Moving Across The Country In Your 20's!

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Resumen

TLDRIn this video, the speaker shares their journey of moving from Los Angeles to New York City, discussing the motivations behind this significant life change. They emphasize four main reasons for the move: improved quality of life through walkability, a love for seasonal weather, a boost in creative inspiration, and a desire for personal growth and challenges. The speaker reflects on their experiences in LA, contrasting it with the vibrant, community-oriented atmosphere of New York. They encourage viewers contemplating a similar transition to embrace the change, assuring them that it can lead to positive outcomes and personal fulfillment.

Para llevar

  • 🌆 Moving to NYC for a better quality of life.
  • ❄️ Embracing the seasons and cold weather.
  • 🎨 Seeking inspiration in a creative city.
  • 🚶‍♀️ Enjoying a walkable environment.
  • 💪 Pursuing personal growth and challenges.
  • 🌟 Encouragement to take the leap and move.
  • 🚗 Missing the convenience of a car in NYC.
  • 👗 Feeling free to express creativity in public.
  • 🤝 Finding community and connection in NYC.
  • ✨ Everything falls into place when you follow your dreams.

Cronología

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker reflects on their past experiences with depression and loneliness, acknowledging their time spent in New York City as a favorite yet unexpected choice. They discuss the reasons for their recent move to New York, emphasizing the quality of life improvements they anticipate, particularly the walkability and community feel that they found lacking in Los Angeles. They express excitement about the spontaneous and youthful moments they associate with New York, contrasting it with their previous life in LA where they felt disconnected and unmotivated to explore.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:12:14

    The speaker elaborates on their reasons for moving to New York, highlighting the appeal of experiencing seasons, the challenge of adapting to colder weather, and the inspiration they find in the city's creative environment. They discuss how New York fosters a more accepting atmosphere for creativity compared to LA, where they felt judged for expressing themselves. The speaker concludes by encouraging others considering a move to embrace the challenge, emphasizing personal growth and the importance of seeking new experiences.

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Vídeo de preguntas y respuestas

  • Why did the speaker move to New York City?

    The speaker moved for quality of life, weather, inspiration, and personal growth.

  • What is the speaker's view on LA vs. New York?

    The speaker feels that New York offers a more stimulating environment for creativity compared to LA.

  • How does the speaker feel about the weather in New York?

    The speaker appreciates the seasons and is prepared for the cold weather.

  • What does the speaker miss about LA?

    The speaker misses their car but feels that living in New York is right for them.

  • What advice does the speaker give to those considering a move?

    The speaker encourages anyone thinking about moving to take the leap and assures them that everything will fall into place.

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    I'm prepared for whatever comes my way
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    depression loneliness I've felt it
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    before I'll feel it again okay I've
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    spent a good amount of my 20s in New
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    York City and quite honestly the
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    memories I have here are some of my
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    favorites and yet I never had a desire
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    to move here I was perfectly fine with
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    letting New York be this wild escape
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    from the life that I'd always known it
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    seemed so crazy even my delusional ass
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    couldn't even begin to think about the
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    idea of me moving so what changed hello
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    welcome back to my channel okay so if
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    you've seen my last YouTube video you
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    would know that I recently uprooted my
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    entire life and moved to New York City
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    the City of Dreams the City of Lights
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    people will expect me to be like oh like
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    I'm here to hustle I came here to make
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    it I came here to make 10 billion
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    dollars in trading stocks in today's
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    video I'm going to be talking about
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    three main reasons why I moved to New
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    York City it might be four I feel like
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    it's always this massive debate of like
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    LA versus New York at least in my
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    opinion when I was moving out of La I
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    feel like I had a lot of friends that
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    genuinely were like why is La so bad
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    that you feel like leaving and I felt
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    like I honestly had to prove myself to a
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    lot of people which I know like I don't
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    have to prove anyone jack didly [ __ ] but
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    I felt like a lot of people Loki were
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    like coming for me when they were like
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    you think New York's gonna be that much
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    different than La you think that New
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    York's this fantasy land that you see on
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    Tick Tock [ __ ] like I honestly felt
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    like so many people just thought that I
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    wanted to move to New York because of
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    like I saw I saw like a tick tock of
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    some coffee shop that I wanted to go to
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    I feel like this video would be a good
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    video to just talk to you guys about
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    because I know a lot of you guys are
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    looking to move out of your hometowns
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    looking to make a transition looking to
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    make a big shift in your life and if
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    there's ever a shift to do it's moving
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    to a completely new state subscribe if
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    you haven't already because why not
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    let's keep this party going on this
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    channel shall we let's get into the
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    reasons reason number one why I moved to
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    New York is quality of life I know that
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    sounds crazy when it's like quality of
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    life like that sounds so depressing but
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    okay so I grew up in Southern California
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    up until last month I had never even
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    lived an hour outside of my hometown
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    when I was in college I spent a lot of
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    time on campus you kind of lived in this
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    community where everyone would like walk
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    around everyone was a lot more social
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    you know you would go to like that one
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    street by your college that had like all
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    the coffee shops and all the bars and I
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    guess what I'm trying to say is having
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    things very walkable near you that flow
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    feels so good after college when I moved
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    to LA that flow pretty much disappeared
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    I personally found it really really hard
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    to be motivated to leave my house I love
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    walking in cities like it's my favorite
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    thing to just walk around for hours I'll
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    walk for miles it's really therapeutic
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    for me to just watch people interact and
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    like see new stores and new restaurants
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    and take pictures of like places that I
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    want to remember and living in La I
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    didn't walk at all when I was in New
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    York I would actually go to the park
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    like I would go to the park I would go
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    to the park with my friends and we would
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    just lay in the grass and have a picnic
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    and Friends of all different people
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    would come and say hi and it was a very
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    Community Based feeling I just felt like
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    all of the most spontaneous youthful
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    joyful those moments that made me feel
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    like a kid happened in New York City
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    they didn't happen in La like they just
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    didn't and that's different for everyone
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    some people might find their flow better
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    in La I just realized I could eliminate
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    a lot of my quality of life problems by
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    literally just being in a walkable City
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    the same people that will be like oh my
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    God but living in L.A you guys have the
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    beach are the same people that but do
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    not go to the [ __ ] beach like let me
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    tell you and I'm a beach person and I
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    don't even go to the beach because the
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    effort of driving is already you're
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    driving an hour to the beach parking is
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    expensive if there's even parking even
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    when I literally lived like this is the
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    perfect example I literally lived on the
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    water five minutes away from Malibu
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    Farms which is like one of my favorite
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    restaurants in Malibu I couldn't even go
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    to Malibu Farms living in Malibu I was
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    as close as you could possibly get and
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    even my ass could not find parking at
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    the beach the point is
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    like that should just prove my point
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    like living in La it is so difficult to
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    even just exist and enjoy
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    the literal [ __ ] City you live in if
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    you can't even get to enjoy
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    what is five minutes away from your
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    house how are you supposed to enjoy the
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    entire city the number two reason why I
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    moved to New York is actually the
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    weather I know a lot of people are gonna
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    freak out when I say that why the [ __ ]
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    would you move to New York versus LA for
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    the weather I don't know about you but I
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    really love Seasons like seasons are
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    great seasoning on those Seasons people
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    are gonna be like oh my God New York
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    [ __ ] sucks in the winter it's brick I
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    know that I know I'm prepared for
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    whatever comes my way depression
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    loneliness I've felt it before I'll feel
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    it again no but honestly I just have to
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    go through it myself and I know people
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    are gonna say
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    why when you can live in sunny
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    California
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    Beverly Hills I just feel like when you
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    grow up with no seasons for the majority
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    of your life and you're now an adult it
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    gets old okay so why do I think I'll
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    survive the winter I'll give you like
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    four reasons number one my family is
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    from Buffalo New York which means we
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    have the New York surviving the cold
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    warm-blooded Gene flowing through our
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    veins we're polish number two my
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    boyfriend is Norwegian so he already has
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    dealt with the most extreme version of
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    Northern Europe winter I feel like if
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    you can survive that
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    New York is piece of cake number three I
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    actually do very well in cold
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    temperatures girl I've camped in a
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    sleeping bag in four feet of snow in the
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    Canadian winter the wind doesn't scare
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    me I mean the wind does scare me a
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    little bit New York but the snow doesn't
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    and the temperature it really doesn't
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    scare me I'm here for the challenge you
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    know I think we'll be fine I'm honestly
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    excited I feel like everything's gonna
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    be fine also I heavily collect jackets
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    like I'm not even kidding I collect
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    jackets they are my favorite thing to
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    wear I didn't get to wear any of my
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    jackets living in L.A I know someone's
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    gonna quote this and be like this [ __ ]
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    is moving to New York so she could wear
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    her jackets yeah
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    to be quite honest that's a big part of
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    it yeah
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    I didn't collect these jackets for
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    nothing third reason why I moved to New
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    York is inspiration I feel like this is
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    pretty self-explanatory but when you're
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    not living in a place that stimulates
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    you that stimulates your creativity that
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    promotes creativity creativity just kind
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    of dies New York has so many points of
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    inspiration for me and it just allows me
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    to create more freely I feel a lot less
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    insecure here to create and I don't want
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    this video to be like in LA versus New
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    York thing that could be a whole other
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    video the fact that there's so many
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    people in La hustling to make it on Tick
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    Tock or like be an influencer and yet
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    the culture around creating content in
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    public is still so Taboo it's so
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    embarrassing it's so looked down upon
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    it's honestly crazy if I ever wanted to
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    go out in LA and like just shoot a cool
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    creative idea or take an outfit picture
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    the simplest things you're just kind of
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    like judged and you're looked at and
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    it's really weird the vibe is off
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    however one of the cool things I really
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    realized about New York even way before
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    I thought I might end up moving here I
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    would see literally really all the time
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    a girl taking a picture of her friend in
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    an outfit I would see girls crossing the
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    street flipping their hair someone
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    filmed me an iPhone video I have fully
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    seen girls on the side of the street
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    with a tripod getting their content I
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    don't look at them in a weird way I
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    don't like take videos of them and put
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    them on like [ __ ] influencers in the
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    wild you know it could be possible that
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    the girl taking the picture of her
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    friend or a model is the designer of
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    that dress and is trying to get content
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    to promote her brand like there's
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    nothing weird about that at all maybe
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    it's their creative passion maybe
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    they're wanting to become a photographer
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    and they're trying to expand their
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    portfolio like all of those things are
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    very normal and it's so crazy to me how
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    they're still looked at as very weird
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    and Taboo in LA and everyone feels like
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    they need to film them and like focus on
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    them and make them feel uncomfortable
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    they're just trying to be creative
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    and there's nothing
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    weird or out of the ordinary about that
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    I mean if you guys follow me on
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    Instagram or Tick Tock you guys have
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    probably seen me making so much more
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    fashion content and just expressing
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    myself a little bit more freely people
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    living in New York genuinely make it a
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    lot more comfortable to shoot content
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    and just be creative and be yourself
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    even if you're not shooting content the
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    people in New York genuinely make it so
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    much less stigmatized to be yourself and
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    be creative and just live your best
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    [ __ ] life like I guess what I'm
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    trying to say is if you feel this way in
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    your hometown I relate to you even
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    though I lived in nowhere so yeah okay
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    so one of the last reasons why I moved
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    to New York is I was seeking a challenge
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    I was seeking a challenge I was seeking
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    growth I was seeking bettering myself
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    leveling up in myself and in my career I
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    feel like no matter where you're from
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    whether you live in LA or you live in a
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    small town in the midwest or you live in
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    freaking Jamaica like no matter where
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    you live if you live in your hometown
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    you're always going to have that feeling
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    of like what else is out there you know
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    like how big can I really do life how
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    insane can life really get the aerial
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    effect you know it's like the Disney
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    Princess effect you see this like big
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    city this different place this place
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    that's like across the world across the
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    water and you see this version of
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    yourself that like could live there in
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    the future and you just start to
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    fantasize you know you're just like what
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    would my life be like if I was brave
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    enough
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    and crazy enough to make that transition
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    just because you moved to a different
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    place doesn't make you a different
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    person you still have to work on the
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    same issues you're dealing with all of
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    the problems that you want to fix about
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    yourself they don't go away just because
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    you moved to a new city like we are not
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    discounting any of that
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    but I dead ass thought about moving to
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    Portland I thought about moving to
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    Washington I was this close relocating
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    my entire family to Upstate Washington
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    like I was this close I know it sounds
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    dramatic but I realized if I would have
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    done that that would have been me
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    running away from so many of my dreams
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    that I never realized and I know I don't
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    have to live in New York to be a fiction
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    writer or be a DJ I could be a DJ in
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    Portland Oregon you know but I have to
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    shoot for the stars you know and I think
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    that's the only way to do it so even if
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    you're not doing anything creative at
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    all I'm a firm believer in the fact that
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    putting yourself through challenging
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    situations only helps you in the long
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    run it makes you a better character it
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    makes you have more empathy the best
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    years of my life which are supposed to
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    be my 20s
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    haha I feel like I should spend it
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    seeking uncomfortability and seeking
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    Challenge and seeking growth and me
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    going from LA to basically live in a log
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    cabin which was what I was looking for
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    at the end of the day just didn't feel
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    right this is the first time I've ever
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    lived outside of my hometown this is the
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    first time I've ever lived in a place
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    with Seasons there's so many firsts
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    happening it all feels super exciting
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    but honestly like more than anything it
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    feels really right Everything feels
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    exactly how it should be I do miss my
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    car anyway I will keep you updated if
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    anything changes if I end up hating it
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    here I I don't think I will but I guess
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    I'll end it with if you're thinking of
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    making that transition moving to a new
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    city you're a little bit nervous you're
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    a little bit scared I say do it this is
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    your sign because so many things have
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    happened just in the last three weeks of
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    me living here that tell me that this is
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    exactly where I'm supposed to be so if
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    you need a sign to do it to make that
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    shift this is your sign
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    everything's gonna be okay everything's
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    gonna fall into place and
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    don't be scared so yeah anyway that is
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    it for this video be sure to follow me
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    on Instagram and Tick Tock I was about
  • 00:11:49
    to say Twitter but oh my God yeah I'll
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    see you guys next week for a new video I
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    love you guys so much and I'll see you
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    guys later
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    [Music]
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    thank you
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    [Music]
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