I moved from NYC to Italy without speaking Italian or having a job. Now, I'm married with 2 kids, and I love my life here.

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Caroline Chirichella (not pictured) moved to Italy from New York City at the age of 24.

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Ryan Serhant wants to capture his bad days on camera and show how luxury real-estate is hard

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Ryan Serhant has starred on television for over a decade.

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NYC shuttered 80% of its Airbnbs in an attempt to make housing more affordable. All that's done so far is make hotels more expensive.

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5 mind-bending buildings from Las Vegas to Dubai that never broke ground — and what stands in their place instead

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Side-by-side of a proposed NYC skyscraper and the present-day building in its place.
In the 1970s, a real-estate developer proposed a futuristic tower with a giant stock-trading floor.

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I rode the Jitney bus from NYC to the Hamptons for $41. The bathroom didn't have a sink, but I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of my trip.

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I took a coach bus from Midtown Manhattan to the Hamptons on Long Island.

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3 Supercommuters who travel across multiple states for work share how they manage it and why it's worth it

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New York City briefly opened its housing voucher waitlist. But getting that assistance is as unlikely as getting into Harvard.

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Looking east from the Hudson River in Riverside Park past the West Side Highway are high rises on the upper west side in Manhattan.

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I took a $195 luxury bus from the Hamptons to NYC, and the high-end freebies I got on board were worth more than my ticket

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Hamptons Streamliner is a new luxury bus offering.

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What you need to know about the giant, 'flying' spiders spreading over the eastern US

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Joro spiders are an invasive species in the US, but they aren't as scary as they seem.

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Your Uber Eats orders may be more likely to get stuck in NYC traffic now

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An Uber Eats delivery bag.

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