Going to Seattle

[cos]

I'm transferring to a team at Google Seattle, much to my surprise (well, to the surprise of me a month ago or anytime in the past few decades, more accurately). Planning to move there, along with Alice, around early February, but keeping the house in Cambridge with intent to return in a few years...

Oh, we also have to figure out how to move a cat.

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Have fun in Seattle!

If you want, we have a spare cat carrier of the kind that is airline approved for carry-on. You need to tell them in advance that you're bringing a cat, they'll charge you something like $100 extra and you have to bring a vet certificate showing that the cat is in good health and up to date on rabies shots.

I'm curious, why Seattle?

[cos]

I've dealt with handling PETC SSRs on the airline software & policy side during the ITA years, now it may be time to actually book a ticket with PETC SSR for myself for the first time :) We've started researching the pet policies of the most relevant airlines (Alaska, JetBlue, Delta), and carriers - and I'd love to see your spare cat carrier, thanks!

Why Seattle? Very few roles and teams would be attractive enough to get me to consider moving away from Cambridge, and even for those few, there aren't many other locations I'd consider moving to, but this case just happened to be an intersection of those two factors. The team is exactly the sort of thing I want to work on and seems exciting, and the Seattle office is in a nice walkable neighborhood I like in a city I like. Plus Alice's sister lives there, so she had already brought up the idea of going there the last time we visited.