Where in the World is...
<a href="http://www.yoheinakajima.com/Blog/Blog/Entries/2009/1/3_Where_in_the_World_is..._files/world_map_small.jpg"><img src="http://www.yoheinakajima.com/Blog/Blog/Media/world_map_small_1.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:270px; height:135px;"/></a>Yohei Nakajima, going to be next year?<br/><br/>My last three summers, I spend the majority of the time in the greater Los Angeles area. Close to school, jobs were easier to find, and so were people I knew. Throughout college, I?ve always assumed that I would stay in Los Angeles after I graduate. However, as the clock ticks, I realize that my options are endless. I still feel as thought Los Angeles will be my first choice, purely because of the number of people that reside in Los Angeles that I would like to get in touch with. But I see myself leaving LA as soon as I have had a chance to network for a year or two and to solidify some long term friendships. I know many people in New York and San Francisco, two cities I have always wanted to live in. I emphasize ?to live in?, because I strongly believe that living in a city is not comparable to simply visiting. I can back this up from my own experience: having traveled back to Japan yearly for my entire life, it was not until I moved there mid-high school that I realized how different Japan is from the United States. Although I realize the difference between Tokyo and Seattle is far more significant than that of two cities within a country, I still stand by my statement that only by living in a city can one truly get to know the culture and people. For this reason, I am announcing my desire to live in the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York for at least 6 months each in the next 5 years of my life. In order of preference, if time were to allow it, I would like to reside in Seattle as well as Miami and Chicago.<br/><br/>For better or for worse, this focus on the location, or variety of cultural experience, has made my search for a job and/or grad school seem less meaningful.
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