33-year-old pays $2,100/month to live with 23 roommates in Brooklyn
In a city as notoriously expensive as New York, it’s common to see people in their late 20s and early 30s living with roommates to help manage the high cost …
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25-year-old pays $1,472/month to live in a car-free neighborhood
In early 2024, Jada Stratman, 25, was searching for retail space for her candle business, Brite Candle Co. That’s when she found Culdesac. “[It’s] the first car-free neighborhood built from …
I won the NYC housing lottery and my rent is $1,000/month
Nkenge is a native New Yorker, born in the Bronx and raised in Harlem. While growing up in the city, living in a neighborhood like Manhattan’s Flatiron, where the current …
I pay $4,150 a month to rent this apartment above a Miami mall
In 2021, Rachel Koggan decided she was ready to leave New York City and head south to Miami, Florida. Koggan, a 34-year-old VP of Media Relations at M Booth, tells …
This couple bought an abandoned house for $1.5 million: Look inside
In October 2023, Nick Volkov came across a unique listing for a house and just knew he had to show it to his girlfriend, Jenna Phipps, a 28-year-old content creator. …
23-year-old artist paid $500/month to live in a ‘dry’ cabin in Alaska
The day after AnnMarie Young graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, she and her best friend moved to Fairbanks, Alaska for the summer. The 23-year-old artist …
28-year-old pays $1,900 a month to live in a former NYC laundromat
When Sampson Dahl, 28, found a former laundromat in Maspeth, Queens on an online forum back in 2019, he had no idea how much the space would become his life. …