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Moving back in 2-3 years... lay groundwork now?   Hello fellow
New York StreetEasy-ers -- long-time reader, first-time poster!
I'm an expat New Yorker in Tokyo who's thinking about heading
back to the city in two or three years or so. I'd love to buy my
future apartment right now, rent it out until I'm ready to go
back, and then occupy it myself.  It'll be just me, probably my
future wife, and possibly (hopefully!) one kid, so we're happy
to stick with the small dimensions that we're used to. She and I
occupy 400 ft^2 and might want a little more space, but not too
much more. (Our neighbors are raising *two* teenage daughters in
a space of the same size -- more power to them!)  If we go back
to the US, it has to be NYC and preferably as centrally as
possible. We both have minor visual impairments that prevent us
from ever driving a car, so we need to have everything within
walking/cy