> <i>The week after Christmas, we drove our entire lives up to our new apartment in NYC, got my wife settled in the city, and then I flew out to San Francisco to live on the other side of the country from her for 3 months.<p>> And it was, without a doubt, one of the best experiences of my life.</i><p>Out of context this wording is kind of funny/sad.
The one trait I've noticed about these articles is the applicant must have a significant amount of planning.<p>It doesn't sound like YC is something that you wake up on Monday and say, "I'm going to live in California for 3 months on savings without a reliable source of income and hope I can turn my idea into a business."