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Slate Culture

Death, Sex & Money | Your Moving Stories

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

They say moving is one of life’s most stressful events. We asked for your stories about why you’re doing it. Plus, Heidi Reinberg was priced out of a Brooklyn neighborhood she loved. Where did she end up?  Death, Sex & Money is produced by Slate! To support us and our colleagues, please sign up for our membership program, Slate Plus. Members get ad-free podcasts, bonus content on lots of Slate shows, and full access to all the articles on Slate.com. Sign up today at slate.com/dsmplus. And if you’re new to the show, welcome. We’re so glad you’re here. Find us and follow us on Instagram and you can find Anna’s newsletter at annasale.substack.com. Our email address, where you can reach us with voice memos, pep talks, questions, critiques, is [email protected].  __ Get 50% Off Monarch Money, the all-in-one financial tool at www.monarchmoney.com/DSM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At this moment in America, people are moving to new homes and new cities at the lowest rate on record.

0:07.1

That's according to a recent Wall Street Journal article.

0:09.9

Part of it is entry-level jobs that tend to prompt workers to move to new places are hard to come by right now.

0:17.0

People with jobs are hanging on in place, as are people who were able to buy homes when interest rates were lower.

0:25.2

But after we shared our episode with New York City professional mover Adonis Williams,

0:30.8

we asked if some of you were in the market for help with moving boxes.

0:35.0

And some of you are still packing up and moving somewhere new.

0:39.5

This year on Labor Day weekend, I'm moving away to New Orleans. For the last several years,

0:45.9

I've been asking the universe for a shift to meet a partner, to have a kid, and it hasn't come.

0:53.7

So at a certain point, I realized it was up to me to create my own shift and to answer my own needs.

1:00.2

I am in New York City and Woodstock, New York, and we are selling and getting rid of everything

1:09.3

to move to Paris.

1:11.6

I have multiple sclerosis and the health care in France is very desirable.

1:19.6

So we are moving for health care, for culture, and for great food.

1:26.3

We were married for 23 years, had a very happy marriage, but in January, he passed away.

1:33.3

I had been wanting to move back to Chicago, and I thought, this is it, I'm going to do it.

1:38.5

And I was a little bit nervous about making a change like this at age 67.

1:43.5

But I thought, well, if I stay in Utah,

1:46.1

I'm still going to be 67.

1:47.6

I'm not going to be any younger there.

1:49.0

So I just had to do it.

1:52.9

Hi.

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