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In 2023, Lin Koh, her husband, and their two young children moved from Santa Clara, California, to France to help care for her husband’s mother, who lives in France and has Alzheimer’s.”We were observing her decline, and we made the call,” Koh told Business Insider. The Bay Area’s high cost…
I grew up in Los Angeles — Studio City, to be exact. My father was the chief audio engineer at NBC Burbank for 38 years. I met the stars he put on the air — Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, and Johnny Carson. I even sat in Tony Martin’s lap in…
In February, I was laid off from The Washington Post when my entire team in Seoul was cut. More than 300 journalists lost their jobs in a single day. Loading audio narration… About two years ago, my family and I moved to South Korea from Colorado after I was offered…
When my husband and I decided to move our four-person family from the US to Spain, we had roughly two semesters of college Spanish between us and zero experience living abroad. Loading audio narration… We didn’t let that stop us, though. Beginning in March 2025, we researched obsessively, read books,…
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Growing up in the suburbs of southern California, I knew a few things to be true about my family. Most importantly, I knew that all we had were each other. Unlike my friends at school, we did not have any extended family. There were no big Thanksgivings, hangouts with our…
When our two kids were getting ready to choose their colleges, our family’s schedule seemed to get busier than ever.For months, our school breaks and weekends were filled with the same monotonous routine: Drive several hours to a college, take a tour of the campus, and head back home.Not only…
2024 was a big year in our household. All three kids were graduating — our oldest from high school and our twins from junior high.When it came time to celebrate these achievements, we gave them an option. We could throw a party or use the money for an awesome family…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matthew Breen, a 51-year-old podcast producer and talent manager based in New York who’s currently in Puerto Vallarta. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m based in New York City most of the year, but for the past couple of…
“I guess we’re moving to Canada.”It was a quiet, almost outrageous statement considering our position. Just a few weeks earlier, Hurricane Dorian had slammed into our home in the Bahamas, a country I’d lived in my entire life.My family had spent 24 hours trapped in our attic, praying the roof…
