“We wanted to live in a movie and be in the thick of it, so we moved to Manhattan,” Mr. Watson said. Ms. Mico called it “the Chinatown cave.”They always renewed the lease for one year rather than two, daydreaming about buying. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]“We were completely green, not just to the process but to what was available to us,” Mr. Watson said. “We knew in our price range there were not many places available,” Ms. Mico said. Most homes they saw felt cramped, with cupboard-like bathrooms where “people have to have things custom-built to fit the tiny space,” Mr. Watson said.

Source: New York Times May 13, 2021 09:00 UTC