Tag: new york
Turning 60 In New York
About a year ago, a dear childhood friend from New York called me and told me he was going to buy me dinner for my 60th birthday. Naturally, I assumed he was going to complete this transaction by visiting me in North Carolina. But I was wrong. His daughter had recently got engaged and their…
How to Survive Expensive Urban Life
I’m a fraud. Or at least that’s how I often feel. Yes, groovy freedomists, I suffer from impostor syndrome. Oh, yeah, I’m a big tough guy. I’m financially independent. But I don’t have any kids. And when Mrs. G and I left high-cost New York for low-cost North Carolina in 2006, we arrived with no…