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Growing up, all I wanted was to leave my rural hometown of Edenton, North Carolina, behind and move to a big city.Alongside a population of less than 5,000, Edenton has one big grocery store and a downtown that really just consists of a single short main street.Almost every bar and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Clea Barry, 44, an interior designer who moved from Kansas City to Chiang Mai, Thailand, with her husband and three kids in 2022. It has been edited for length and clarity.My husband and I met 20 years ago, and our shared…
New Yorkers, famously, are walking here. But just about 25% of them are driving too.Commuting undergirds New York’s economy, and shapes the daily lives of its workers. New York’s robust public transit system carries around six million passengers daily, and around 1.6 million people drive into Manhattan’s Central Business District…
When I graduated from college in 2021, all I cared about was moving abroad.As a Spanish and communications student, I was supposed to spend a full year studying abroad in Seville, Spain — something I had looked forward to for years.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, though, I had to leave…
Alexis Adegoke is always romanticizing New York City.She and her husband, Tolu, who had spent part of his childhood in the city, moved to New York together in 2014 after graduating from college. As they built their adult lives, the couple embraced New York’s hustle. They loved that they could…
When I finished university, people would always ask me what I wanted to do. I saw myself eventually moving to London, building a career, and settling down there. A lot of my friends had already done just that, and I thought I’d do the same.I was living with my parents…
A mass outpouring of data center opponents has prompted the California city of Coachella to consider a moratorium on development of the facilities there.It’s the latest example of community backlash tempering local authorities’ acceptance of data centers — which are being built across the country to accommodate the rise of…
Zohran Mamdani has ambitious ideas for New York City housing.The Mayor’s Office dropped its detailed policy plan — called “Block by Block” — on May 26, outlining goals to build more apartment buildings, convert unused offices and hotels into living space, and help residents navigate one of America’s most expensive…
Americans are leaving big cities in search of a more affordable cost of living, but it turns out they don’t want to be too far from the action.According to data from Redfin, house hunters yearn for the exurbs — the happy medium area between rural and urban. Redfin analyzed ZIP…
The break came suddenly. After 24 years together, my husband told me he wanted to explore his bisexual side. It had always been an open relationship, but when he started dating a woman seriously, my heart broke. He fell in love. Loading audio narration… For my 50th birthday in October,…
