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Originally Posted by eschaton
I'm a parent with two children living in the city, and I concur.
However, if you're talking about a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood, that generally means you want to have an active commercial district. And when considering commercial vitality, the number of households is more important than the number of people, given children don't really buy much, even if they do walk around the neighborhood. Therefore all things considered, "family-friendly" urban neighborhoods need even higher population densities then popular neighborhoods for young people to be as commercially vibrant.
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Yes to all this. I'm also happy living in an family-friendly urban neighborhood, but realize that, pound-for-pound, it's less vibrant than a singles-oriented neighborhood.
Kids aren't opening businesses, and their parents are dead-tired by 9. Families consume less than equivalent counts of singles. Weekday nights it gets quiet pretty early for NYC standards, in part because of kiddos.
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