Earlier this year I was an out of work actor living in New York. Now I'm an out of work actor living in Los Angeles. My wife and I had been planning the move before the recession hit, and I must admit that the financial crisis gave us pause. Others might very sensibly have decided to hunker down and weather the storm, putting off the move to some hypothetical future. But we decided that the move was always going to have an element of risk, and we might as well subject ourselves to that turmoil in a year when turmoil would seek us out anyway. Never waste a crisis, so to speak.

We've received mixed reactions to this decision.