"Our address is AirBnB" writes a man who has spent months hopping from one New York apartment to the next with his partner. They have different personalities and desires and frustrations with the monthly moves, but overall have found not only great things about AirBnB as a company, but about real estate in NY, about neighborhoods in and around Manhattan, and about what we really need to live.
After a few months of living with just a few bags, they determined that their storage unit was packed with belongings they once thought they would eventually want, but ended up donating, instead...recognizing it as superfluous to their needs. It's funny how we think we need some things only until they aren't there and we are able to forget about them.
A long read, but an interesting one if you last to the end, there are a lot of themes that will resonate with you wanderlust dreamers and livers of life out there. There will be moments where you ask what human can afford $3,000/month and still have money left to eat...and then you will sympathize with their rat infested walks to their local bodega where they find worms in their pasta.
NY...I often wonder why so many people love the place. I suppose being a wanderer in and around it short-term could make all the difference!
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