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Does Virgin America Sale Help Or Hinder Discount US Airfare?

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As one 29-year-old Silicon Valley marketing manager and former frequent Virgin flyer told The New York Times : “I think of [Virgin] as a young, hip airline. In fact, the addition of Virgin’s routes to Alaska will boost the latter’s share of the nationwide air travel market by a mere 1.5 Alaska is more of a friendly aunt.”.

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Outside The Box (And Inside The Storage Container) Solutions To Sky-High Rent

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And while San Francisco’s housing market is legendary for its many rental horror stories, other cities are less extreme but still quite high: roughly $2,850 a month in New York, $2,670 in Washington, D.C., 2,420 in Boston and $2,300 in Seattle for a no-frills one-bedroom, probably a walk-up.