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When I was in the city, I was living what I thought was the dream: I had a stable government job, a great house, and a packed social schedule.I had built a life I was proud of, and that life had absolutely nothing to do with cows. Then, I met…
When Matthew Straight and April Pasilang lived in Cebu City, the oldest city in the Philippines, the constant hum of traffic made it hard to slow down.”We didn’t really ever get to open a window. It was always closed,” Straight, 46, told Business Insider.Straight, who grew up in New Zealand,…
New York or nowhere. It’s a T-shirt and an Instagram, but it was also my personal motto for most of my young life.I was born in the Bronx, got my first post-college apartment in Queens, spent nearly a decade in a fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan, and brought my first baby…
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Some people cope with a breakup by starting a new hobby, throwing themselves immediately back into dating, or finally giving in to those BetterHelp ads. Me? I pack up my life and book a one-way flight to a new city, including, most recently, to a different continent.It started in 2014…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lance Koster, a 61-year-old Pilot instructor, and his wife, Michelle, who moved to Justin, Texas, in 2024.Justin is a small town about 40 minutes north of Fort Worth. According to recent Census data, its population is 6,197.The essay has been edited…
Last summer, I was a year out of college and living in Nashville, with no idea where to go next.Most of my friends were headed to New York City, with a few straying from the norm by going to other big cities, like Denver or Dallas. I, however, veered entirely…
In 2021, Taylor and Tatum Barnes decided to leave New York City.The couple paid $160,000 for a one-bedroom fixer-upper in the small town of Pomfret, Vermont; their mortgage payment is half of what they spent on rent for a studio apartment in Brooklyn. They felt the property, which came with…
