One of the hardest things about being a young artist is the itinerant nature of your calendar. Not only do we traipse around the country for gigs, but we also move every couple of years or so for proximity to school or other training.
This year marks the end of Bryn and my Masters' programs, so it's moving time again. We're homeless at present, since our lease came up just in time for us to begin our summer contracts scattered around the globe... so the question is, where will we live?
Option number one is my hometown of Vancouver, Canada. We have excellent training available there, we could live with my parents on the cheap, and it's one of the most beautiful places on the planet. The down side is that we have to get work visa for Bryn - shouldn't be too hard since we're married, but we don't know how long it will take - and it's quite a ways from the east coast audition circuit.
Option number two is New York. There is (obviously) great training available there, plus it puts us right in the middle of audition-land. The downside is the cost, of course. New York apartments are notoriously expensive, and it puts us in that great singer's conundrum: either you're working, so you're making the money to pay for your apartment, but you're not living there; or you're not working, so you don't have the money to pay for the apartment while you're actually using it.
So, that's that. For the immediate future, Bryn and I have gigs lined up through mid-November. After that... we'll see.
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