Increasingly, aging affluent baby boomers are finding themselves living in more than 1 house and in more than 1 state. Flexible working arrangements and new technology help make it possible.
To Pat and Kevin Fox, the character of home is found in a large window seat, glass-fronted kitchen cabinets, white bedspreads and boxy white night tables in the master bedroom. So that’s why all these features appear in their two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights and in their four-bedroom house in Tallahassee, along with identical bathroom fixtures and nearly duplicate wardrobes in the closets.
Enabled by cheap airfares, flexible work schedules and technology such as cell phones, BlackBerrys and the Internet, a growing number of people are shuttling between two or more homes, blurring the age-old distinction between the primary and the vacation home.