Escape from New York

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

… You might live in a New York City apartment and really long to have an actual … into this house and immediately turn around Its a historic home that was originally constructed in 1859 as an ice house … basin but we purchased these at a fractional cost from Home Depot We did something similar with our bathroom tiles We …

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

Escape

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

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

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

Second Homes

Your top 4 questions about getting a mortgage for a country home—answered

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |June 23, 2016 - 8:59AM

Escape

Here's what happens when a lifelong New Yorker visits Los Angeles for the first time

… It took me 34 years to make it from my hometown of New York … I never travel either But there were myriad reasons LaLa Land was never on the itinerary First as a true native New … a childless trip to Los Angeles for a long weekend We lived it up renting a BMW convertible staying at Chateau …