Make Me Smart

What it really takes to live in New York City


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The Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle is unreachable for most recent college grads in today’s New York City, thanks to high housing costs. We’ll get into the lengths some younger newcomers are willing to go to make it work and dig into a related problem: a potential commercial real estate crisis. Plus, how should cities deal with cannabis smoke? Then we’ll play a round of This or That!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

      • “NYC’s Rent Surge Defied by New Grads Pursuing a TikTok Lifestyle” from Bloomberg
          • “Defaults on commercial real estate loans are rising” from Marketplace
              • “Workers want to stay remote, prompting an office real estate crisis” from The Washington Post
                  • “Opinion | How should D.C. deal with pot smoke? from The Washington Post
                      • “D.C. resident wins case to stop neighbor smoking marijuana” from Axios
                      • The next $50,000 in donations to Marketplace are being matched by longtime fan Dr. Joe Rush. Join Joe in making a gift today!

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