nate's family resides in a stately townhouse off park avenue on the exclusive upper east side of manhattan in new york city, and his mother's french socialite family owns a summer chateau in nice. he is a fan of sailing like his father, and wished to do that instead of attending yale with blair, although he expressed interest in attending brown university. at the end of the series he sails around the world with a friend of his father's, captain charles "chips" white to avoid getting in between blair and serena again. in "i will aways love you", on break from deep springs college, nate chooses blair in part i and then serena in part ii.