If you’ve been following my Twitter stream you may...

If you’ve been following my Twitter stream you may have noticed that I’ve been blessing NYC with my presence more than usual lately. I’ve even purchased tickets to a midnight screening of Harry Potter at a theatre in Union Square. WHAT COULD IT MEAN?!

Some of you are slow, so I’ll spell it out: I’m moving to New York City. Or at least, I’ve gotten a three-month sublet in East Village, which I’ll use to test the waters. And let’s be honest — it’s going to take me three months to find a place I’d want to lease, anyway. NYC’s housing market is nauseating.

I could write a long explanation waxing poetic about San Francisco and Silicon Valley and why I’m moving, but it really boils down to this: I’ve lived in the Bay Area for 85% of my life, and I’ve been roving Silicon Valley for over three years now. I’m ready for a change of scenery. In college I always planned to move out to London to get the big-city experience, but between the still-nascent startup scene there and huge time difference that isn’t really feasible.

But NYC definitely is. Sure, New Yorker accents aren’t nearly as enchanting as Londoners’, but I’ve had a great time there over the last month. And it has many of the things that I’ve always wanted to experience for myself, like subways. And taxis that aren’t completely terrible. And snow.

Shut up, I know you think snow sucks (everyone has the same reaction). I don’t care. As a toddler I once touched the red-hot part of the stove. I need to figure this stuff out for myself. Also, East Village is awesome.

I still love startups and everything Silicon Valley stands for, and I’ll be covering all of the same companies every day for TechCrunch. Maybe I’ll even check out a few New York startups while I’m out there. Just make sure you aren’t based near Times Square. That place is freaky.

And don’t worry, you’ll still see me around the Bay Area all the time. I’ll be back for plenty of events, and my family lives out here — my mother is making me take an Unbreakable Vow to return often enough to fulfill her hug quota.

Presumptuous FAQ, in which I assume people give a shit.
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What about TC Cribs?

We have every intention of keeping TC Cribs going (it’s fun for me and the response has been almost universally positive). I’ll be coming back to the Bay Area pretty regularly, and we can shoot four episodes in a two-day span, so there shouldn’t be any shortage of new tours. In fact, we already have four unreleased episodes in the can.

OMG/JK!?!

Pfft, I’d never give up my weekly opportunity to debate ~~a rabid Apple fanboy~~ my favorite colleague on the current state of tech. We’ll figure something out using Skype (AOL has a studio in NYC that I can use, so I should even have a fancy backdrop).

THIS ALL SEEMS SO SUDDEN

To be honest I was planning on mulling it over for a while longer, but circumstances forced my hand. One day after getting home from TechCrunch Disrupt my landlord called to inform me that my water had tested positive for lead… again. The same thing happened a year ago — they replaced the sink and I was given the all-clear, but apparently they were wrong. Or something.

Suffice it to say I was furious and stormed into the office of the management company. They’re going to replace the pipes but at this point I have zero faith in them and will be moving out regardless. So my options were to either sign a new one-year lease somewhere else in SF, or embark on a new adventure.

Happy ending: after two weeks I finally got my blood test back and am Lead-Negative. Woohoo!