Vanessa Sergeon loved her Brooklyn apartment, but there wasn’t much nature nearby.

In 2018, Vanessa Sergeon found herself hooked on the great outdoors after friends introduced her to hiking in the Hudson Valley.

The 38-year-old software engineering manager had been living in the one-bedroom, one-bathroom Brooklyn Heights co-op that she’d owned since 2013. But despite all New York City had to offer, she was hungry for woodland adventures.

“Brooklyn Heights is amazing, but there really isn’t a lot of nature nearby,” she said.

So, in late 2019, she rented Zipcars to tour houses around Kingston and Hudson, N.Y., and Greenwich, Conn. But when Covid shutdowns hit, she decided against the financial commitment of a second home.

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