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After graduating with a bachelor’s in computer science in 2023, a software company offered me an exciting job that paid $60,000 a year.The catch? I had to move away from home.I had grown up on Long Island all my life, but the company didn’t have an office within commuting distance…
Choosing a city to live in is a personal decision, but in an increasingly expensive housing market, affordability is more important than ever.”Every year we ask consumers what they’re looking for in a place to live, and this year consumers overwhelmingly cited that they were looking for value and affordability,”…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s central promise has been to bring down his city’s cost of living. Loading audio narration… But New York’s affordability problems are a result of its own success: Despite slowing population growth, the city’s housing stock and services are still in high demand, pushing prices…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nathaneo Johnson, 22, who co-founded Series, an AI-powered social network, and is based in New York. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I knew my startup had a problem when our food budget hit over…
