Escape from New York

How to renovate a vacation home on a $20,000 budget when you work full-time in NYC

By Mimi OConnor |December 3, 2018 - 1:00PM

Snow in April, but there's space for days: One young family's move from Jersey City to Portland, Maine

… thinking about leaving In recent weeks we have talked to New Yorkers who picked up and moved to Alabama and … and now were checking in with a lifelong New Yorker and New Jerseyan who after 20 years in New York and Jersey City relocated to Portland Maine A New Jersey native Sarah …

By Mimi OConnor |March 1, 2018 - 12:00PM

Escape

From Brooklyn to Birmingham: One Park Sloper's no-regrets move

By Mimi OConnor |January 23, 2018 - 10:00AM

Second Homes

5 homes for sale in Hawaii, where there's no winter and prices are... lower than Manhattan

By Rebecca Fishbein |December 21, 2017 - 2:00PM

Second Homes

13 reasons why owning a vacation home is nothing like your apartment in the city

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |June 29, 2017 - 2:59PM

Suburbs

Connecticut beaches that won't leave you missing the Hamptons

… the closest Greenwich only an hourandaquarter drive from NYC and the furthest Old Lyme just over two hours away Full … the Connecticut shoreline are easily accessible by rail Metro North trains that connect to Shoreline East commuter … The tony town of Greenwich is an easy day trip from the city via MetroNorth and now it is possible to spend the day …

By Marjorie Cohen |July 7, 2016 - 9:59AM