This is a guest post by Chris Backley. It's part of a two-post series on moving to a new city. Yesterday, I wrote about living and loving in LA, after growing up on the East coast. Here is Chris on the reverse journey. 

Chris Backley is a native Angeleno writer/photographer that blogs about dating and happiness (mutually exclusive). He’s also a former paramedic and an exquisite Oreo chef. @BackleyChris on Twitter.​