The Difference
One of the really important differences between living somewhere completely new — I mean this as a technical term: specifically, where all of your friendships and relationships are new — and living some place for 10 years or your whole life or where there are people you’ve known for those amounts of time, is that when you live somewhere completely new, and something important happens, there is no one around to talk to about it. I don’t mean “no one” in the literal sense, I mean no one who, by virtue of having known you for so long, will “get it.” This is the difference, or at least one of them.
PS: I say this because the importance of yesterday is nothing that anyone in this part of the world can possibly understand.