Moving to the City During the Pandemic: 'This Is the New York I Know.'

Moving to the City During the Pandemic: ‘This Is the New York I Know.’
The best part of his Upper West Side apartment? It’s a three-minute walk from his daughter’s place.
Mark Hale, who was living far from family in Atlanta for most of the pandemic, moved to New York to be near his daughter, Emi Yasuda Hale, and her husband, Viktor Mashalov.Credit...Katherine Marks for The New York Times
May 10, 2021
Mark Hale always dreamed about living in New York, but it took a pandemic to bring him here.
Mr. Hale, who grew up just outside Philadelphia, spent 32 years in Tokyo working in project and business development for a Japanese general contracting firm, and raised a family there. Several years ago, when the firm offered him a position in Atlanta, he decided to take it. His two children were grown, his daughter lived in the U.S., and though his wife, Kiyomi, did not want to leave their son, Sei, who is now 23, or their Tokyo apartment, she would visit Atlanta for several months at a time. He also returned to Tokyo frequently for work.

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