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The story says they moved to NYC on October 10, 2025, so they’ve been in the city for two and a half months. They’re still in the pink cloud phase, and still busy settling in.

A three bedroom apartment in a graceful, well-maintained rowhouse on a tree lined street with a great view of the Statue of Liberty ... I wonder if they’re on Staten Island, which is one of the less insane places to live. Or perhaps in Brooklyn, but I’ve so rarely been in Brooklyn that I wouldn’t hazard a guess on a neighborhood. The pictures in the article might provide a clue to someone with some local knowledge.

It is possible to live sensibly and well in NYC if one nests in a good neighborhood. That’s the way to live in any big city. Her husband might be in a field with major upside potential, so the financial hit they are taking might be worth the risk, at least for now.

At some point, however, the excitement of the move and the thrill of expanding their kids’ horizons (and their own) will settle a bit, and the tradeoff may be less attractive a year or five down the road. I wish them well.

I lived in NYC for two years before landing in DC. I did not have any bad experiences, but I did not enjoy the city enough to actually have any desire to live there long term. I guess I’m glad to have done it for street cred purposes, but I was quite happy to get out. Even to Marion Barry era DC.

I have had some urban reality experiences in DC. If nothing else, I don’t back down an inch when a virtue signalling lib wants to spout nonsense about the problems. I do try to stay polite, but if the lib can’t take a hint, I can nuke them in 30 seconds. I’ve always lived on Capitol Hill, within the historic district. I cheer for every block that flips the right way. Block by block, we’re recivilizing the city, and it’s night and day from when I arrived. I am sympathetic to the hard working people of low and moderate incomes who shouldn’t have to endure two hour commutes to entry level jobs. But the welfare queens and bums can either straighten up, get into treatment, or move to Baltimore. I no longer care.

Based on the US suicide map. With regard to mental health: they’re onto something. It’s not by accident Tyler Robinson hailed from Utah and Columbine set off the school shooting trend in Littleton, Colorado…Yes there is crime in big cities and they’re not for everyone…but there’s something to be said for the mental havoc suburban isolationism has wrought on modern children in post-industrial America. The rural life and extended family and community networks of ages past is no longer. At least cities in the mold of NY and Europe offer human engagement, artistic enrichment, and other healthy outlets…

Deaths per 100,000 population are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population.

" I wonder if they’re on Staten Island, which is one of the less insane places to live. Or perhaps in Brooklyn, but I’ve so rarely been in Brooklyn that I wouldn’t hazard a guess on a neighborhood. The pictures in the article might provide a clue to someone with some local knowledge."

Can't exactly make it either. Staten doesn't have that particular kind of brownstone row, so they are in the Heights or probably Red Hook. Enjoy the raw wind straight off the bay 6 months of the year!