In re the Claim of Work

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed July 5, 1996, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause.

Claimant was employed for 32 years by a bridal shop in the Borough of Manhattan. He resigned and moved to Las Vegas, *665Nevada, when an anticipated rent increase rendered his Manhattan apartment unaffordable. Claimant’s relocation was also motivated by his employer’s anticipated move to the Borough of Queens, an area with which claimant was unfamiliar and to…