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I’m Kate
For more than a decade and a half, I’ve helped people create a life by design through my lifestyle and travel blog.
I’m a mom of 3, a full-time romance author, and I’ve been to more than 40 countries and nearly all the states.
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A One-Bedroom in Chicago’s Loop Runs $2,700. Fifteen Minutes Away in Avalon Park, It’s $995. Nobody Markets the Second Number.
Chicago’s citywide average rent sits around $2,000 to $2,500 depending on which data source you check, a figure that gets…
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Lake Tahoe’s Housing Gap Needs 9,528 Units It Doesn’t Have. The Restaurants Are Cutting Hours Because There’s Nobody Left to Hire.
Lake Tahoe’s median home value in South Lake Tahoe rose from roughly $443,000 to $624,000 in a single year, between…
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Pensacola and Seaside Are Technically Florida. Nothing About Them Feels Like the Rest of the State.
The Florida Panhandle sits closer to Atlanta than to Miami, both geographically and culturally, and the towns strung along its…
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Pittsburgh Is the Only Major U.S. Metro Where the Median Household Can Afford Most Homes for Sale. Longtime Residents Aren’t Celebrating.
In July 2025, Pittsburgh was the only major metro area in the country where a median-income household could afford more…
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Oklahoma City Spent $700 Million on Downtown. The Rest of the Country Is Still Making Jokes About the 1990s.
Oklahoma City has an image problem that has almost nothing to do with the actual city. Ask most Americans to…
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A $400 Million Costco Deal Turned Western Iowa Into a Chicken Farm. The Towns Involved Never Got a Real Vote.
In 2019, Costco opened a $450 million poultry complex in Fremont, Nebraska, just across the state line from western Iowa,…