Many of their friends from Grand Rapids were “moving back home and telling us how great it was.” So they followed suit.
When Nick and Rebecca Gray lived in New York City back in the 2010s, they made a lot of new friends. What surprised them was how many came from the same place Mr. Gray did.
“We met three sets of really good friends who grew up in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area,” said Mr. Gray, 42, who was raised in nearby Decatur. But as time went on, he continued, “they all started having kids and leaving New York, moving back home and telling us how great it was.”
The couple, who work in financial services, visited often, developing a renewed sense of appreciation for Michigan. In 2019, they bought a small midcentury-modern house in East Grand Rapids as an investment property, planning to rent it out.
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