On settling in New York
"I live in Harlem in New York. We searched for three months. We had a broker downtown. In Brooklyn. In Midtown and we then had a broker Uptown. They would give us this list of things, possibilities. So one night I called up this lady because it was taking so long. So we took the car and went to the address, because the description was great. 7 windows, wood floors... and my boyfriend is Italian too. And our Italian impulse is very strong. We are both... all the way Italian. We have a very strong sense of home. We love to cook. Italian people, in a family, you have to have dinner all together, sitting down. We wanted to have something that when you walked in, you felt like, "I want to be home"
I find that the downtown places are very noisy, very small. And the walls are very very thin, you can hear everything. If you don't have the top floor you hear walking and walking and walking. And what I found in a brownstone is that you have a sense of a real house. There's less stress. Everybody is more warm. There are more kids, more family, more animals. It's more like... cozy."

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