The Drake

Settling Down

AS A 30-SOMETHING with a young family, I’m like many millennials making homes in communities far from our birthplaces. Home is now defined by a confluence of factors that differ from prior generations. Millennials are settling down where they got that first job and first promotion, where they met that final girlfriend and both happened to love the local microbrewery and

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