Stories
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Why award-winning book, magazine, web, and app designer Barbara deWilde left the city behind to forge a new identity as a bookseller in small-town New Jersey.
Detroit Still Works
How (and why) architect and educator Bryan Boyer left Brooklyn and found life (and work) in the Motor City
Is “The Great Resignation” a Myth?
Upwork’s chief economist Adam Ozimek has studied the numbers and is here to tell you how to think about the changes caused by remote work.
It’s Bigger Than Walmart
Why did 33,000 people apply to move to northwest Arkansas in the last year? Spoiler alert: It wasn’t just the free mountain bikes.
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation
As cities, regions, and countries around the world vie to attract Soloists, they’re coming up with all sorts of incentives: free burgers, free bikes, and lots and lots of cash.
The Future of Cities Is Flat
Sure Soloists are on the move, but not everyone is moving halfway across the country. Some of them aren’t moving far away at all. But even these small moves will bring big changes to our cities. And our suburbs. (Oh, and the world.)
People Without Borders
What happens when a Brit moves to Spain to live and work, gains virtual residency in Eastern Europe, and then tells everyone about it? Perhaps the most Solo business ever.
You Can Go Home Again
A native son returned to the city he loved and created an industry. How Tulsa became the birthplace of a global movement.
Middle of Everywhere Podcast: Work Wherever You Want to Live
Introducing our new podcast that explores the importance of place — and how, like never before, you can chose how you want to work, where you want to live.