A new city can reshape your head and emotional core in ways that are hard to expect. Moving can be traumatic and thrilling in equal measure. For some of us a simple extended vacation can be in and of itself a difficult undertaking.
People leave college and go backpacking around Europe for a few months to "find themselves." People have a traumatic life event and finally get the courage to hit the city of their dreams maybe on a friend's couch or the sort of holiday apartment rental that is meant for a trial period. In every case, the move is meant to stimulate some sort of personal growth. It is there to try and move your headspace both figuratively and literally. The results are unpredictable but the sense that you are out there seeking is simply that of a person hoping to be reborn.
In all of these cases a trip of this sort of importance requires not merely a few days or even a week, this has got to be an extended voyage. Uprooting one's self is a great way to test your mettle and figure out who you actually are. You need enough time to settle in and get to know not just the scenery and vibe but to actually introduce yourself to new things and people. In a way the changes are most likely to come when you are putting yourself the furthest distance outside of yourself as possible.
This is why more and more websites are offering not just a room to rent for a short period of time but instead a fully furnished holiday apartment to rent. Chances are whoever is putting up an apartment as say a holiday rental is likely looking for their own clarity elsewhere. Moving into a "home" as opposed to simply moving into a "room" means that you will not have the unsettled feeling of that European backpacker, or some other nomadic adventurer. This is more about exploring how you swim in different waters than how you travel.
The apartment rental will offer you chances for solitude to explore how and why the new experiences outside of those walls are affecting you. In a large capacity that holiday rental will act as an emotional center, its creature comforts will be the things that help you maintain some balance even as you make moves to pull yourself out of comfortable space entirely.
Trying new things can teach us a lot about ourselves. As we get older though we do want a touchstone to come back to as we try new things. Pick a city and find a holiday apartment to rent. The experience, for a month, two months a half a year, could be the right kind of life altering for you.