after growing up in sandrock, Gwen appreciates the milder weather and greener environment of portia... for a little while. but she misses REAL heat, hates how damp and humid it gets in portia, how there's damn PUDDLES and mud all over the place throughout every season. it's Fine, she it's good festival weather, it's pleasant enough to work in most of the time, but on her days off she really wishes she had a home base somewhere just a bit drier, warmer...sandier.
(she's not the, or even a licensed builder).
but once the bridge is built, when the trading post and motel get off the ground, when phyllis sets up her apothecary over there... oh, she is SO moving to South Block!!! wouldn't care if she had to live in theeeee shittiest ramshackle hut for a while, would just be so stoked and relieved and At Home in that new neighbourhood, while getting to stay close to and part of Portia, which had otherwise come to feel a lot like home, a lot like a place (with some people...Sam....) where she could spend a lifetime...
but she definitely moves there and works for a while before the Portia-Sandrock bridges, roads, tunnels and buses are anywhere near running, so is basically cut off from the kind of environment and climate she'd prefer unless she's willing to do the boat-train-whatever inbetween BS long journey in reverse again.
