This is Optimal Living Daily, What It Feels Like to Always Travel by Tynan of Tynan.com.

And I'm Justin Mollick. We're going to get right to it as we optimize real life.

What it feels like to always travel by Tynanin of tynan.com.

For the past few years, I've been in a state of near constant motion.

I was in Budapest for five weeks straight last month, and that was by far the longest I'd been

in one place in years. This lifestyle now feels totally normal to me, so I thought it might

be interesting to share what it feels

like to live such a life, both good and bad. Maybe the best part of moving around constantly

is that I have a presence in different cities around the world. I have friend groups in Vegas,

San Francisco, New York, Tokyo, and Budapest. In any of these places I can land and immediately feel at home, navigating

by memory, calling up friends, going to favorite restaurants, etc. Because I go to all of these places

with relative frequency, I'm generally never gone for too long, so although I don't get to see all my

friends every week like I'd like to, I generally see them every one to three months,

longer for Tokyo. If you call these five places my homes, you could say that I have five half

homes rather than one full home. In other words, it feels like some of these partial residences

is greater than one residence in terms of connection with friends, getting to know a city, etc.

There are very few slow or boring weeks because every week follows the template of, I'm in Budapest,

I need to do all of my favorite things and see all my friends. The downside to this, of course,

is that I don't have any one 100% home. That means that I don't get regular casual contact

with any of my friends and I

definitely feel the downsides of that. This manifests in dating as well, especially because

those new relationships are so fragile. Often I'll have a great first date, leave for a month or two,

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