Cody Bay
Cody Bay is an award-winning writer, editor and media ace based in Seattle, WA. With a focus on social good storytelling and content strategy, she recently led the Microsoft News for Good initiative at MSN, creating content experiences to inform and empower readers to take action on the causes they care about. She has contributed to a wide variety of local and national publications, including Microsoft’s IT Showcase, The Seattle Times, Seattle magazine, The Travel Channel and the Puget Sound Business Journal, and was previously a multimedia editor at The Associate Press in New York. Cody’s other talents include playing the ukulele, singing, doing headstands, reducing household waste, and keeping her cool in stressful situations. She lives near Seattle with her husband, daughter, cat, two chickens and a woolly bear caterpillar in a mason jar.
- Seattle, WA, USA
- @CodyBay
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Publications
- GOBankingRates11 articles
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4 States To Move To If You Want To Build Up Your Retirement Savings4 Sep 2024—GOBankingRates©GOBankingRates Commitment to Our Readers When you’re trying to put money away toward a big goal like retirement, it can be hard to get ahead. You’re still working, but you’re also still juggling multiple financial demands, which may include kids, college costs, mortgages and home improvements, and trying to maintain a certain standard of living to boot. Beyond shaving expenses off here and there, a significant money move may be just that — a literal move to a place with a lower cost of...
6 States To Consider If You Want To Thrive Financially in 202527 Aug 2024—GOBankingRatesRelocating to a different state can have a significant impact on your finances. In Massachusetts, the most expensive state in the contiguous U.S. — second to Hawaii overall — residents pay an average of nearly $107,000 a year in cost-of-living expenditures. Compared to the least expensive state, Oklahoma, where the annual cost of living is around $63,000, the difference is almost 70% higher. A variety of factors contribute to the financial environment you live in. While states with no income...
More Single Women Than Men Own Homes in the US – 6 Tips for Female Homebuyers8 Jul 2024—GOBankingRatesMarried couples have long been the predominant demographic of homeownership. But as marriage rates have fallen — dropping 7% since the 1990s — and mortgage rates have risen, so has couples’ share of the real estate market. That has given rise to a growing demographic of other homeowners: single women. According to the National Association of Realtors, couples made up 73% of homeowners in 1981. That rate had fallen to 60% by 2021. Meanwhile, single female homeowners have grown from 11% to 19%...
Is a Costco Membership Worth It in Retirement?4 Jun 2024—GOBankingRatesCommitment to Our Readers If you’re retired, you probably don’t have a house full of mouths to feed. So, stocking up on bulk quantities of anything at a big warehouse store may seem to be more in the realm of growing families or business owners. According to a recent GOBankingrates survey, a whopping 64% of respondents over the age of 65 said they do not shop at Costco. That tracks with insights from retail data firm Numerator, which finds that baby boomers make up just 35% of Costco...
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