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A Writer’s $1 Million Retreat in New York City

November 14, 2010

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that I lived in New York City for 18 years and have a never-ending love affair with it. In fact, I still have an apartment there, which I sublet to a friend from Chile.

As a long-time reader of The NewYork Times, I ran across this story in the Real Estate section today, entitled A Writer’s Start-Over Home. I love this section of the times (the column, Habitats) because it gives you an inside peek into the lives of sometimes ordinary, and sometimes extraordinary, New Yorkers with relatable stories.

Personally, I fell in love with the column because how those featured live is usually so different from how I live — yet I may pass that person on the same streets (if I still lived in the city). I mean, there aren’t many of us who can afford $1 million apartments, or $5,000/per month in rent — which is often the case of those featured in this column. But most New Yorkers take the subway and get their morning cup of Joe at the corner bodega on their way to the subway.

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New York real estate prices are so out of whack with most of the rest of the nation, but for those who live there, it’s normal. In any case, those are just some of the reasons this column captured me years ago and why I continue to read it, even though I haven’t lived in New York full-time since 2004.

As today’s entry featured a writer, I thought I’d share it with you.

Southern Born with a New York Spirit

Sometimes I miss the city so much it’s a physical ache. Even though I’m southern born, I’ve never bonded with a place, a city more. Some of my native New York friends even kid me that I’m more New York than they are. I think it’s the vibrancy of the city, the no-nonsense way of getting things done.

It’s not a city for the weak or meek; if you’ve got cojones and are fearless, you’ll thrive. And truly, if you can make it in New York, you can do anything, anywhere — or at least feel like you can.

Anyway, that’s my ode to the Big Apple today.

God bless her dirty, stinky, crowded, expensive — but oh so lively – little heart.

Yuwanda
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