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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Should I Stay or Should I Go - On Leaving Big Cities

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a pandemic, big city living loses its allure. As pricey, small spaces feel ever-more stifling, we talk with three people about leaving.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey you, I'm Andrew Seaman. Do you want a new job or do you want to move forward in your career?

0:10.0

Well, you should listen to my weekly show called Get Hired with Andrew Seaman.

0:14.8

We talk about it all, and it's waiting for you, yes you, wherever you get your podcast.

0:20.1

From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is Hello Monday, our show about

0:29.2

the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.

0:35.0

Big city living has always been a test of endurance.

0:38.0

Unless you're fabulously wealthy,

0:40.0

you're likely living in a small space,

0:42.0

close enough to your neighbors to hear them

0:44.2

through the walls. But at least for me, the trade-offs have been worth it.

0:49.7

Access to culture, jobs, professional opportunities, and so many cool people.

0:56.0

In the blink of an eye, COVID's changed all of that.

1:00.0

As we've all quarantined, many of us city dwellers have felt the walls close in around us.

1:05.0

And we've learned that much of our work can be done virtually, much more than we thought.

1:10.0

And with so much time at home, we're left to wonder. Is this really what I want for my life?

1:17.0

I live in Brooklyn. Many people I know are moving.

1:21.0

They're looking for space, nature, ease. Sometimes they don't even know exactly what

1:27.1

they're looking for. And I confess to occasionally having an escape fantasy myself. So this episode I'm talking to three people about

1:36.4

leaving. My first guest is Tyrone Fripp. Tyrone's the kind of New Yorker who grew up in Manhattan.

1:45.0

But the quarantine's been hard.

1:47.5

It just started to really get to me

1:49.9

the feeling of isolation, the feeling of claustrophobia, the feeling that at my stage in life I'm living in a way that

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