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Five years ago, Bibek and Malati Rai found themselves at the same Sakela Festival in Jackson Heights, Queens. Ms Rai performed a traditional dance at the event, a biennial celebration of nature and heritage for the Kirat Rai community in Nepal and northeast India. The two spoke only briefly and crossed paths again the following […]
When Daniel Waters met Jodie Horton five years ago, one of the first things he told her was that he dreamed of buying property on a beach. “Waking up, looking out the window and seeing the sun melting into blue water feels like the ultimate backdrop,” says 49-year-old Mr Waters. Dr. Horton, 52, is a […]
Nick and Katie Deponte grew up about 30 minutes away from each other in Southern California — she in Claremont, California, on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, and he in Redlands, California, in San Bernardino County. They didn’t know that until 2019, when they met in Phoenix and discovered they had a mutual […]
Patty Chan’s love affair with Japan began 55 years ago, when she first visited as a high school student in the San Francisco Bay Area. She traveled to Sado Island, a remote community on the west coast of Japan, and fell for the traditional architecture of minka houses, with their tiled roofs, sliding doors and […]
Paul and Amy Silverman lived in Houston for twelve years, where he worked as an oncology radiologist. The couple later discovered Asheville, NC, when they were visiting for a medical conference, and eagerly moved there after Dr. Silverman retired in 2012. “We thought we were going to spend the rest of our lives in Asheville,” […]
Adam and Amanda Powell loved living in Liechtenstein, the fourth smallest country in Europe. The American couple, who work for Hilti, a Liechtenstein-based power tool company, spent three years in a modern four-bedroom apartment in the town of Schaan with their two young daughters. But last winter they were told their work visas could not […]
When Crissy Spivey bought a large one-bedroom, one-bathroom co-op in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park neighborhood in 2018, she had all the space she needed. Shortly before closing, she met John Richie, who had just moved to New York from New Orleans. It wasn’t long before he joined her in the apartment. The following year, the couple’s […]
1915 [–> With America’s industrial revolution in the rearview, the government begins promoting homemaking to young women as an exciting new science — “just as useful to maid as to mistress.” Meanwhile, kitchens are adopting technology like mass-produced metal stoves, the early iterations of refrigerators (just iceboxes, at first) and electrification. The electric kitchen leads […]
Homebuyers in their 50s and 60s typically downsize as they become empty nesters and retire, especially in Florida. But not Mitchell Judge and Emily Weiss. They met two years ago on a blind date. Both had moved to South Florida about a decade earlier — Ms. Weiss, 58, from southern New Jersey, and Mr. Judge, […]
By the time Maria Francis started looking for a home for herself and her husband, she was virtually immune to the idea of challenge. Ten years of emotional churn and crisis management had taken care of that. Mrs. Francis once assumed that the couple was permanently based in Central Florida, where her husband, Mike Francis, […]
