- It is now the topic of a lot of bullshitting.
Acquaintances ALWAYS ask us about Vashon. They don't care, as far as I can really tell, but it's like the topic that passes. It's really really annoying. "So Vashon huh. You guys really like it?" or "Vashon. So are you guys going to stay." WTF. It never occurs to me to ask that question when someone moves to Seattle, but I guess moving to an Island is more baffling?!
- Some people simply will not visit us.
We have lost some friends in this move. Sadly, there are people who simple never leave Seattle, these people are NOT coming to Vashon. Not even if they walk on the ferry and we pick them up. Not even if they could morph here. It just isn't happening for them.
- Visitors are now better visits.
We have solidified friends in this move, the people who visit us now do so for more than an hour- for 4 or 6 hours! That's some real time. And, since we are a family that deeply values quality conversation over frequency it works for us. It also allows us to be our introverted selves without needing excuses. We simply aren't going to socialize every weekend. On Vashon, people don't expect it.
- And of course we just have new friends.
Of course we have made friends here too! When you have kids you have friend magnets. So meeting people here has been pretty easy. Remarkably easy (for us) in fact. I mean, when we lived in Seattle I year we had only 1 real friend (Junia was born when we had been there a year and only 1 person brought food). We have lived on Vashon now for a year and have a handful (who would bring us food ,for example, if we had a baby).
So that's that. It isn't exactly like switching neighborhoods in Seattle (which strangely a LOT of Seattlelites never leave their neighborhoods either) but moving to Vashon has shifted things, for better and for worse.
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