Carrie Bradshaw: Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Daily Beast Dept: And she achieved her goal, transforming herself into a skinny blond fashion plate with a cool job writing lifestyle features for the Daily Beast website and a handsome, successful boyfriend though Carrie Bradshaw would have stopped short of the nose job , according to Winnipeg Free Press. In this somewhat glib, scattered memoir, Dana documents the post-breakup soul-searching that found her sharing an apartment with a rapidly lapsing 30-year-old rabbi called Cosmo in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in the midst of the Orthodox Lubavitch community and journalist Rebecca Dana came to New York with Sex and the City dreams. The Pittsburgh-born writer pictured herself in a tiny skirt and giant stilettos, striding confidently through a glamorous world of cocktail parties and galas. Unfortunately, when her Mr. Big turns out to be Mr. Big Cheating Jerk, the dream goes off the rails. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.