Published March 18, 2007
Key (The New York Times real estate magazine)
For most of us, buying a house is about reconciling the life you envision with the life you have. We all carry around in our heads little movie reels of the scenes we imagine ourselves playing out in some ideal future—the birth of a child or the celebration of a big promotion, a reunion of family members long estranged. Shopping for a home is like searching for just the right Hollywood set, the place that most closely resembles the scenery in our minds.
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