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Published in City Life

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A new Medium publication all about life in great urban places — The image that anchors this article is of an all-day cafe in Rome’s Trastevere neighborhood called Bar San Calisto. This specific place, the immediate neighborhood, and the larger city define what it means to be not merely urban, but vibrant and urban. …

Cities

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City Life Submission Guidelines
City Life Submission Guidelines
Cities

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Published in Making of a Millionaire

·17 hours ago

Am I A Douchebag For Wanting To Move To Europe?

I’m not in the business of gentrifying anybody’s city. I’m just trying to get by till the day I die. — The other day, a Charlie Brown article hit my inbox. Charlie and I are friends. We often promote one another’s work, as we tend to see eye-to-eye on our overlapping themes. However, as I started to read this particular story, I thought — for just a second, or maybe a…

Money

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Am I A Douchebag For Wanting To Move To Europe?
Am I A Douchebag For Wanting To Move To Europe?
Money

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Published in City Life

·1 day ago

A Big And Ugly Problem With American Cities We’ll Probably Never Fix

Other than homelessness — The best U.S. cities have something wrong with them that, no matter how much progress we make, we’ll likely never fix. It ties directly to a couple of things happening over the next few days and weeks. One, my girlfriend and I leave for a month-long trip to Spain and…

Cities

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A Big And Ugly Problem With American Cities We’ll Probably Never Fix
A Big And Ugly Problem With American Cities We’ll Probably Never Fix
Cities

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Published in City Life

·3 days ago

The Outrageous Prices People Pay To Live In A Dead Big City Downtown

This bodes well for cities of all sizes — When I say dead big city downtown referring to Downtown Los Angeles, consider my frame of reference. It goes back to 2008 and an article I wrote for an urban planning site about the time I spent doing research in Skid Row. The neighborhood on the eastern edge of DTLA. 'Broken Windows' Rebuffed: The Social Life of Skid Row As an urbanist I grow weary of repeated references to Jane Jacobs. Large numbers of planners and architects have heeded…www.planetizen.com

Cities

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The Outrageous Prices People Pay To Live In A Dead Big City Downtown
The Outrageous Prices People Pay To Live In A Dead Big City Downtown
Cities

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Published in Making of a Millionaire

·3 days ago

3 Of The Dumbest, But Most Common Reasons We Spend Money We Don’t Have

They’re mostly psychological — So much of what we’ve been discussing in recent weeks deals with people living beyond their means. Crazy stories of $1,000-plus car payments and people making six figures apparently living paycheck to paycheck. Then, on the other end of the spectrum, there are people truly struggling in the face of…

Money

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3 Of The Dumbest, But Most Common Reasons We Spend Money We Don’t Have
3 Of The Dumbest, But Most Common Reasons We Spend Money We Don’t Have
Money

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Published in Making of a Millionaire

·Jan 19

The #1 Reason Why I Don’t Own A Home And Refuse To Buy Another Car

Maybe you can relate? Because it’s critical to reducing stress and doing better with money — Depending on where you live — or want to live — there’s a good chance you make this one money decision multiple times. Hopefully you know you’re making it. Because it might be one of the most important decisions you make in your life. For me, it wasn’t all that…

Money

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The #1 Reason Why I Don’t Own A Home And Refuse To Buy Another Car
The #1 Reason Why I Don’t Own A Home And Refuse To Buy Another Car
Money

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Published in Making of a Millionaire

·Jan 15

This Crazy Decision Is 10 Times Worse Than ‘Throwing Your Money Away On Rent'

Focus on the in-the-moment, on-the-spot money decisions we all make most days — As if it couldn’t get any more absurd. Last week, we discussed the inanity of a $1,000-plus car payment. Apparently, 15.7% of new vehicle buyers decided to go down this road at the end of last year. Now, we learn that, as of Q3 last year, 19% of new and…

Money

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This Crazy Decision Is 10 Times Worse Than ‘Throwing Your Money Away On Rent'
This Crazy Decision Is 10 Times Worse Than ‘Throwing Your Money Away On Rent'
Money

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Published in City Life

·Jan 13

There Are Walkable Neighborhoods In Los Angeles. You Just Have To Drive To Them.

A positive prediction on the future of increasingly urban Los Angeles — When I studied urban planning in college between 2002 and 2008, most professors used the following North American cities to illustrate all the good things about cities and emerging urban planning — New York, San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, Mexico City first followed by the occasional mention of Boston, Chicago, Denver…

Cities

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There Are Walkable Neighborhoods In Los Angeles. You Just Have To Drive To Them.
There Are Walkable Neighborhoods In Los Angeles. You Just Have To Drive To Them.
Cities

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Published in Making of a Millionaire

·Jan 12

$1,000 a Month Car Payment — Thankfully Most People Aren’t This Crazy

Medium readers dropping wisdom and great personal stories in the comments — The Medium article I wrote the other day is one of those Medium articles where, after reading the responses, I feel a whole lot better about things than when I was writing the article. A Pathetic Example of Living Beyond Your Means That We Have Normalized You’re better off buying a $30 pizza, twice a week, every weekthemakingofamillionaire.com

Money

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$1,000 a Month Car Payment — Thankfully Most People Aren’t This Crazy
$1,000 a Month Car Payment — Thankfully Most People Aren’t This Crazy
Money

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Published in Making of a Millionaire

·Jan 9

The Simple and Easy Money Strategy That Will Make You Happier Than Hell

It’s not really a budget because budgeting sucks — My girlfriend and I watch our fair share of reality TV. Particularly some variation of matchmaking shows. Quite frequently, you’ll see singles say they’re looking for somebody to build an empire with. Or they refer to their legacy. Beyond the self-centered nature of those modern cliches, references to my legacy…

Money

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The Simple and Easy Money Strategy That Will Make You Happier Than Hell
The Simple and Easy Money Strategy That Will Make You Happier Than Hell
Money

7 min read

Rocco Pendola

Rocco Pendola

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I write about living the semi-retired life, money and cities on Medium, at https://roccopendola.substack.com. Creator of City Life, https://medium.com/city-life

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