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Originally Posted by rgolch
What’s more is, people over the age of 45 usually don’t uproot their lives just for the heck of it. That’s the time of your life when kids are usually in high school, and you’ve already developed your social networks.
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speaking as a late-stage genX-er (i'm 42) city-dweller, it seems like most of my peers delayed procreation until their 30s. it's now not all that uncommon to be 45 with kids in elementary school.
some of my friends jumped into family-hood earlier and now have a teenager on their hands, but they're the exception, not the rule in my social circle. maybe out in the burbs people generally start families younger?
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Originally Posted by marothisu
I wonder how many people who are in these income groups right now who either have young children or will have them soon will either (a) stay in the city, (b) move to the suburbs, or (c) move out of the metro area. I'm curious to see if there could be a changing trend or not in the future with people like this. Also how many people won't have kids and just stay in the city.
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we're generic white people in our early 40s, we're comfortably well into the 100K+ group, we have 2 young kids, and we're currently planting some long-term roots in lincoln square.
a generation ago, people like us almost unilaterally moved to the burbs.
now, lots of people in our age/income/racial demographic still do move out to the burbs once olivia and oliver reach school age, but i do get the sense that a real shift is taking place.