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November, an hour ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was wondering why people moving to another country would come back and forth in their lives pretty regularly. Obligations. Now I know.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, constant comparison between my life in California and my life in Ile de France. Just putting them together in the same sentence sounds weird. Who wins? Nobody wins. Through different lenses, different angles and different distances, there are preferences. It\u2019s an endless mind game.<\/p>\n

These days I tend to feel an unlimited amount of creativity in L.A. while I feel most at peace in the City of Light. That actually sums it up very well.<\/p>\n

Sometimes in France people tell me \u201ctu remontes l\u00e0-haut?\u201d which means \u201care you going back up there?\u201d, like the USA are obviously an upgrade or inaccessible, higher. It\u2019s always sounded exciting as hell, especially from France\u2019s countryside. So when I look around me and see a typical US street like on TV when I was a kid and that I\u2019d dream of riding my bike there<\/em>, it\u2019s always a bit surreal. And still exciting.<\/p>\n

Obviously, there\u2019s much more to living somewhere than just spacing out at a LA stop. The American Dream these days looks like a spinning bottle going faster and faster pointing at two things: <\/p>\n

It\u2019s total bullshit and always has been.
It\u2019s possible to make it.<\/p>\n

It might not matter at all. For now it\u2019s the classic, weird blues a couple of weeks ahead of switching back to Paris for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November, an hour ago. I was wondering why people moving to another country would come back and forth in their lives pretty regularly. Obligations. Now I know. Meanwhile, constant comparison between my life in California and my life in Ile de France. Just putting them together in the same sentence sounds weird. Who wins? Nobody […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}