How your neighborhood is secretly rewiring your financial brain

Your environment doesn't just determine your rent—it's quietly programming your entire relationship with money...

I realized I'd become a full-blown urbanist the day I caught myself explaining congestion pricing to a bewildered coworker at lunch. They definitely did not bring the topic up — I’m sure we were talking about good dinner spots in downtown Manhattan — but there I was, gesticulating wildly about traffic externalities and the economics of road space while …