COVID's Silver Lining: A Calmer Life

This family left the West Coast for a simpler lifestyle in a small Cape Cod town.

- EMMA PATCH

PROFILE

WHO: Aimee Foster (at far right in photo), with husband Barrett, son George and daughter Elizabeth

WHAT: Left Burlingame, Calif., during the pandemic and moved to Cape Cod

WHERE: Brewster, Mass.

Why did you decide to move to Cape Cod from the Bay Area? My husband and I moved out to California about 16 years ago for work. He’s in the tech industry, and I’m in financial services. Burlingame is just south of San Francisco, and we loved the Bay Area, but we missed the East Coast because that’s where we are both from. My husband’s family has lived in this town since around 1700, and before the pandemic, we had bought a second home here that we intended to retire to when the kids finished school. We always imagined it would be nice to move here, but we never thought it could happen while we were working. Then COVID happened, and my husband and I were both working remotely.