Thoughts on the First Year in Portland
The View from the Schoening's Back Yard To be honest, it isn't quite a year... we headed south on June 29, 2015. But it's been an eventful year, nonetheless, and the last few days of extremely hot, summery weather has made me think about the year in review, and how I feel about our first year in Portland. I don't know what I expected from moving this time... I knew Portland would be less expensive than Vancouver BC (because really, almost nowhere is more expensive than Vancouver BC), and I'd heard that although it is getting tougher to be a working musician in Portland than it once was, it was still a pretty good place to develop a career. And Portland hasn't disappointed on that front. Within a year, Adam and I have: Released an album Had a successful album release party Started our own music school, which is picking up steam Found so much teaching work that we're already at the point of being able to pick and choose which jobs to take (and be