Illustration: Igor Bastidas This article was featured in New York ’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here . In 2014, I moved from New York to Los Angeles, allegedly to make a go at TV writing. Though, if I’m being honest, after nine years, New York’s roughness had started to gnaw at me. In the months before I left, a rat scurried across my unsocked foot, the magazine I worked for underwent a second series of layoffs, and one night I realized I could open the microwave door while sitting on