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☆ I bought a second home in Spain for $250,000 because I don't want to live in the US anymore. It's half the cost of living in Manhattan.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Zoe Rosenberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Michael Steven Grant and his partner bought a second home in Sitges, a town near Barcelona, Spain. Grant worked in nonprofit fundraising before starting in July with VistaFutura, a company that helps Americans purchase and maintain property in Spain. After many years on the west coast I ended up on the east coast again, in Manhattan, eight or nine years ago. A year ago my partner and I were thinking of where we wanted to buy a second place with the hopes of, down the road, retiring to and living full-time. We went back to Spain in March of this year and saw maybe a dozen places, none of which we liked.

☆ ‘Quietude’ by Eliane Elias Review: Beachy Bossa Nova
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

At the bossa nova’s start in the late 1950s, the music was composed largely by male Brazilian sensualists. Not surprisingly, as the bossa nova caught on, it was popularized on Brazilian albums and TV by a growing number of female vocalists. Elizete Cardoso recorded “Canção do Amor Demais ,” widely considered the first bossa nova album, in 1958. A string of Brazilian female singers followed in the early 1960s, including Sylvia Telles , Nara Leão and Elis Regina . But it was Astrud Gilberto ’s single of “The Girl From Ipanema,” released in 1964, that transformed the bossa nova into a global sensation.

☆ I always book a warm-weather escape around the holidays using points from the Hilton Aspire card. It's not too late for you to do the same if you start now.
▼ + stars: | 2019-11-10 | by ( Carly Helfand | Read More | Read Less | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

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