I live in New York, now! I haven’t lived here since I was 7 or 8, so it’s a little bit of rediscovery and a lot of learning my way around. I live on a really pretty street, next to some amazing places to get food. I have a teeny-tiny little apartment where I can see out onto the street from my desk. It’s bittersweet to leave Chicago, but it feels great to come home.
I’m glad you’re liking home. This strip says it all. Coooool.
Moving sucks! And it’s also a vital part of (my) life (and everyone else’s). I wish you the best in your new abode.
Fun comic!
I’m 27, married with two kids, and I STILL don’t see the point of mowing the lawn. Or having grass at all- a garden would be nice.
I love that Linney is in the picture you took!
Eee! Awesome Lucy! We’re in the midst of moving so I can sympathize, especially since it’s been so damn hot. Your new place looks absolutely gorgeous! *ENVY* It will be so nice to have you on the east coast now!
All our family moves have been like chapters of my life – me living in this house, then me living in that house, then the house with the double bed, the house in the other country, the other house in the other country…
I sympathize! We just moved to Upstate New York from Washington State in February, 2 weeks after our wedding. I hope all the unpacking goes well!!!
I had to laugh when I saw the comic today, because I start moving into my new place on Monday. There’s a sort of strange bitter-sweetness to leaving behind one stage of life and moving to a new place, new opportunities, and still finding some of the same joys and trials haven’t left you.
Not to mention the panel of food at your mom’s. Yum! How do you even make a corn, fig and fennel salad?
Welcome home! Go to Murray’s, Market Table, August, and Little Owl!
I lived in New York for about a year. What neighborhood are you in? I was in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
It was the diiingiest little apartment, but it was also my first real apartment (unless you count me renting a room out of someone else’s apartment for a summer), and it was a great area.
I just moved this weekend. It is the worst.
I really love the colour palette for this comic – the whole page is just lovely (as usual).
Also, you could do a fantastic Where’s Wally (oh, that’s Waldo in America, right?) thing, judging by the computer mouse panel. I think it would be fun (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
Your new room looks very pleasant! I hope you have a great time in New York~~
I saw people moving in Manhattan last weekend and totally an intense case of moving empathy.
Trying to fit boxes of stuff into a far too small car in the summer heat while double parked in from of a fire hydrant. Bummer indeed.
I envy you so much! I am dying to live in NYC. So close and yet so far… I’m in Philadelphia. Which isn’t even close to the same thing, but at least it’s on the East Coast. Congratulations! No matter what happens, you can say you did it. NYC is the best. That’s where all the energy in America is.
And Captain America WAS cool, but that guy would have made me crazy.
Love the new strip, and welcome to New York! I assume you live in Brooklyn, because everyone lives in Brooklyn. When are you going to draw more Harry Potter posters!
Ha, I just moved to Louiseville KY. So, yeah, I totally lived this comic. Actually, several times while moving I remembered that you were doing the same thing because of your Leaving Chicago comics. I’m not saying that your art brought me back from the brink of suicide, but it really did help in a small way. So, thanks.
I love that you post pictures of your environment. I love seeing inside people’s spaces. I watch all the property shows on HGTV so I can see inside people’s houses.
Gosh, moving is no fun but I feel your pain knowing how hot it’s been around here lately. Glad you survived. You’re place looks AMAZING! Congrats!
My approach to moving is almost exactly opposite to yours, through low expectations in myself I end up over preparing so I can deal with any screwups when they come up.
I wanted to say I really enjoy your comics, I wish you updated more often but at the same time I realize how much time goes into making them, and I’d gladly choose quality over quantity.
I really love your comics, and I just have to say that I’ll be moving to NYC soon as well – just need to find an apartment that I can afford and what not. I hope the move goes well for both of us!
Moving does suck! But this comic rocks! I adore the last panel, that’s exactly how I felt almost a year ago when I moved to a new place and had to put my dishes away. Keep on keepin on Lucy Knisley!
It’s so funny, the synchronicity of this comic with my life. When I read “I love chicago”, I was also saying goodbye (temporarily, but still) to the town (Florianopolis in Brazil) that I was living for 26 years (wich is actually my whole life). And now that I’m just settled in my new apartment, at the whole new weird town of Buenos Aires in Argentina, I bump with this one. Hah!
The panel with the boxes really reminds of my sad attempt to move from the hostel to my new apartament: with my enormous bag (containing a lot of wintern clothes, and books, and etc), I just went through a crowded subway station, in the rush hour (wich I didn’t knew, cause Argentina has a different organization of time than my country). A whole nightmare, just to prove my stubborness and stupid ideas of dealing with those things. But at least I finally learned what cabs are for
I think you’re comics (all of them, not just the last one) are really helping me to understand some difficult things I’ve been going through – and to see the in a lighter way. You’re a wonderful artist, with extreme sensibility. Thank you for sharing all this
Awesome comic as usual, hope you get use to your new house!
And I love how Linney is in the 14th panel, reminds me of my chubby kitty Hunter
Hahaha, the Moving Empathy panel is SO TRUE: it’s such a bummer! Insightful as always… this is why I keep coming back. :]
P.S. Your mom’s cooking looks DELICIOUS.
Oh man. I’m moving to NYC on Monday, and this comic describes my past two weeks pretty perfectly. (Minus the kitty, plus a lot of unexpected sadness about leaving Denver. Sigh.) Perfect and true and wonderful as always.
Your apartment looks so rad!
You’re lovely!
Hope New York treats you well! I’ve just stumbled across this comic and read all of them and it’s just absolutely fantastic, so don’t stop being awesome for sure.
Welcome home! We tried to leave it the way you remember, but there may have been a *few* changes in the intervening years!
I hear ya girl: Uni starts up again, and i find myself staring down a room full of boxes, and very little idea how even half of the important stuff is gonna fit in my new place. Another part of moving that gets me is the change in diet/what’s available: not every place has a farmer’s market or places to get good fresh food. You’re lucky in the fact that NYC has literally everything in it’s ecosphere. In any case, bask in the momentary glory of having finished the task of moving and be proud!
welcome back to nyc!!
°O° I loooove your comics
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Saw this, thought of you. Cannot get that old song out of head. Still laughing.
Hi Lucy, I just wanted to let you know Firefox flagged this website as an “attack site” I clicked that it wasn’t but you might lose some hits if it’s happening to other people.
Kitty not too traumatized, then?
The last panel really got me. i feel the same way, every time i move, about the dishes. i suppose they feel like the most dependable, solid thing; humble earthly objects that you seek out every day. Wrapped in paper in the dark in a box in a vehicle, they are imbued with a new possible purpose and future. Gently placing these substantial objects into a new cupboard is part of breathing new life into your new present. That’s why i love you, Lucy– you sum it up RIGHT! Hope you’re settling in fabulously. It looks great so far.