Cheap old homes draw millennials escaping pandemic cages by Reuters
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By Daniel Fastenberg
NORWICH, Conn., Feb 11 (Reuters) - American millennials with budget constraints are breaking out of their pandemic coops to find affordable dream homes in far-flung places.
For funeral home director Kate Reinhart, from Utah, that dream is an octagonal Victorian that recalls the macabre Addams Family mansion seen in cartoons, films and a TV series.
It helped that her scientist husband Cameron found his first job near Norwich, Connecticut, a town with one of the largest concentrations of 18th- and early 19th-century houses in New England.
For just $85,000 the couple bought the 1885 house replete with stained glass, artisanal light fixtures and winding banisters. They plan to put some $100,000 into a massive renovation.
By Nathan Frandino (Reuters) - A crime wave in Oakland, California's Chinatown has rankled the community heading into the Lunar New Year, prompting ce.
A 91-year-old Asian man is shoved to the ground from behind by a suspect in Chinatown in Oakland
(Reuters) – A crime wave in Oakland, California’s Chinatown has rankled the community heading into the Lunar New Year, prompting celebrities to offer a reward to fight anti-Asian harassment.
In a surveillance video that has gone viral, a 91-year-old Asian man is seen being shoved to the ground from behind in Oakland on Jan. 31, his head slamming face first into the sidewalk. It was one of three similar incidents that day, allegedly perpetrated by the same suspect.
The violence outraged Chinese-American actor Daniel Wu, who grew up in the Bay Area, went to school in Oakland, hung out at his aunt’s Chinatown bakery, and whose father is also 91.
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By Roselle Chen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Live music from a violin and bass wafts from a New York City street corner, drawing passersby on a cold February .