Reinvention doesn’t need a new city. Sometimes it’s just a new answer to “what do you do on weekends?”

Reinvention gets imagined as relocation because relocation is visible. The dramatic version, the new city and the new name, is mostly a story about scenery, while the actual change is in what your hours get spent on. Nobody can see that from outside, which is why it gets no credit and does all the work.

So change one weekend rather than one postcode. Join the thing, start the project, go to the class, take the shift. Keep it up for two months and the sentence you use to describe yourself will have quietly changed.