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Fleeing the Big City? How the Move Could Impact Your Finances

At Lake Road Advisors, we work with many mid-career professionals who call NYC home. For those clients, 2020 has proved to be an especially taxing and stressful year as the coronavirus pandemic forced a massive deviation from normal city life — and people are questioning when (and if) things will ever return to normal.

Because of the dramatic shift COVID-19 caused in the normal workdays and lifestyle routines of New Yorkers — and residents of many other big cities, such as San Francisco — many people who previously never questioned leaving the city are now seriously considering the possibility.

If the pandemic is causing you to consider whether you should speed up some major life decisions

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