California

… know Ive done it twice in the past six years But even for someone like me who is a skilled longdistance mover my …   Last spring our family had decided to return to NYC after five and a half years in sunny Los Angeles My mom … Brooklyn back when it wasnt quite so desirable I had never lived in Manhattan and the idea of doing so seemed totally …

… New York  isnt  a maddeningly expensive difficult city to live in particularly if you ever have hopes of actually … of whether or not to throw in the towel and just move somewhere cheaper All that said the idea that life will be … us when it comes to unaffordability Per one recent study NYC is only the  fifth  least affordable place for …

… But recent data would indicate there are actually several US cities where the housing market is even harsher  And where everyone has to pay … week looking at the salaries needed to afford the median home sale price in cities across the country and found that …

… for Californians but what does that mean for New Yorkers some 3000 miles away  In New York affordable housing has … high rents Here you have generations of people who have lived in a particular neighborhood that they helped build … developers to build affordable housing can it happen in NYC …

… or aviation and for all sorts of reasons not just because NYC has lost its cultural edge lets consider the premise and help a former New Yorker out by offering transplants some suggestions on where to live Let the East Coast vs West Coast beef continue apace …