Moving means hunting for a new barber, a new pizza spot, a new walk. The search is half of making it home.

A place becomes yours through a small set of specific attachments rather than through time passing. The barber who knows what you mean, the shop you can get to half asleep, the route you take when you need to think. None of that is given to you, and the period of not having it is what makes a new town feel like nowhere.

Treat the search as the work instead of waiting to settle in. Try one new place a week and keep going back to whichever was decent. Becoming a regular somewhere is the fastest version of belonging.