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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
that completely mirrors my experiences as well.
maybe the people who coupled-off early and started making kids right away and then bolted for the burbs simply saw city-living as some very temporary place to go play for several years after graduating from college, whereas those of us who waited to do the family thing, waited because we fundamentally love city living and wanted to enjoy more of it before setting the monumental and all-encompassing responsibility of parenthood upon our shoulders?
and now that the responsibility is finally there, it's like "fuck it, i still don't want to live in some god-forsaken burb. we'll make this work".
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I think also that someone under 30 is less likely to have the income yet to really make raising a family in the City work, even if they're on a career path where it could work once they're in their 30s. Two earners, each with $60k/yr jobs at 25 earn $120k, which is a nice income but could be a stretch with kids, especially if they don't like their public-school options. But that same couple might each be earning $100k/year by the time they're 35, and $200k/yr as a family makes staying in the City a lot easier, even if they don't like their public school options. And, really, 35-year-olds with a combined income of $300k/year really aren't that uncommon, and $300k/yr is really the international standard of what constitutes "upper-middle-class" for a family - at that level they can really afford to live in nearly any city in the world with kids, with very few exceptions.