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I’ve spent the past year touring colleges with my high school senior, and I’ve found myself thinking a lot about my own college experience — and coming to a surprising conclusion. Loading audio narration… Even though my husband and I both lived at home during college and saved a significant…
Americans searching for homes today are facing some of the harshest conditions yet. Some people are opting for extreme measures, like living in tiny homes in expensive neighborhoods, moving in with family members, or, sometimes, a combination of both.A number of prospective homeowners have uprooted their lives and moved to…
Exhausted from the 9-to-5 hustle, my partner and I sold most of our belongings and built an old 1996 Chevy Express conversion van into a tiny home. Loading audio narration… We’d previously been living in the suburbs of St. Louis, and we were ready for a little more adventure and…
Wanted: A disciplined operator to handle “personal and household” matters for GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen. Loading audio narration… A recent GameStop job listing seeks a private project manager to “plan and execute personal and household projects for a senior executive,” which Business Insider confirmed refers to Cohen.The role includes a…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jessica Stanton. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… On Saturday morning at 2:28 a.m., I had an email from Spirit Airlines informing me that my flight back to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had been canceled.I had…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kat Moore. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… In 2022, my husband and I visited Sicily for the first time. I fell in love with the island and told my husband I wanted to buy a…
After my husband and I bought our dream house — a 2,100-square-foot ranch-style property in a peaceful Connecticut neighborhood — we never thought we’d rent again. Owning it felt like the culmination of everything we’d been working toward. Loading audio narration… But at some point, our house stopped aligning with…
Before kids, I traveled the world alone with nothing more than a backpack and a worn guidebook. I rarely made plans in advance and enjoyed the spontaneity and surprises that were a part of globetrotting without much advance planning. Loading audio narration… Once I started traveling with my children, that…
When I first moved from Poland to Austin, Texas, for a short-term internship in my mid-20s, I never intended to stay. Loading audio narration… As a new graduate, my goal was to get some hands-on experience in international business practices before returning home to work with my dad and teach…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Elaine Yang, a strategic area and infrastructure planner based in Irvine, California, who installed a Samara ADU, short for accessory dwelling unit, in her backyard. Yang, 42, said the decision was not a financial one but was instead a small way…
