How did an ambitious, kind 23-year-old go from working at a California cannabis dispensary to living in Manila with an internet criminal?
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‘Leaving the Bay Area is the Best Thing You Can Do Right Now, If You Have a Dream’
In the Bay Area, there are two migrations: young people in tech moving in, ready to disrupt, and young people with other dreams — the artists, teachers, blacksmiths, therapists, mechanics, musicians — who leave because there’s no longer a place for them.
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In the Age of Instagram’s Travel Influencer, Your Pretty Home Is the Backdrop for Their Photoshoot
At Curbed, Alexandra Marvar explores homeownership in the age of the Instagram travel influencer.
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A Pot of Gold At Age 18, Basically
Low financial literacy and big cash payouts for youth of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians can add up to problems.
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Into the Mouth of Madness and Out Again, Alive
“The pool drill, the rock drill, the sedation drill. Everything is done. Everything but the thing that’s never been done.”
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Why Must We Tarnish the Glittering Legacy of Italo Disco with Petty Squabbles
There’s no “I” in “Disco.” Oh wait, yes there is. This is why we can’t have nice things.
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A Wealth of Perspective for a Free Ride, Now and Again
“Over the months, spending time with these more seasoned humans offers a perspective that is grounding, calming.”
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Exile, Compounded
“His brother, he assumed, was in the island’s detention facility, waiting to be sent to Athens with hundreds of other migrants. Days turned into weeks. Every time Javed tried Masood’s phone, the call went straight to voicemail. After a month passed with no word, it dawned on Javed that his brother was missing.”
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‘It was illegal. And it ruined him.’
As a child, Tom Junod was his dad’s tout. He studied the gambling tip sheets for the only acceptable offering he could give his father: a line on a win.
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‘Black Flight’ out of Chicago
By 2030, Chicago’s Black population will have decreased by half a million people in 50 years.