I’m writing this at 4.30am in 69m2, shared with my gynaecologist spouse, Siri, and two kids. The timing is a necessity, thanks to the utter US failure to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. The size was a choice.

We moved from an already small apartment — small, that is, by US realtor standards; large by any other measure — to an even smaller one last year. Living in the middle of everything in downtown Manhattan is an enormous luxury, even — or especially — during the Covid-19 pandemic...

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