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Building permanent fixtures is right out if you don’t have a yard, this is true. However the urban environment offers a lot of other beneficial things that kids in the suburbs rarely experience (as one who grew up there): regular interaction with people from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, lots of walking and use of shared transportation resources, and a shot at earlier independence, since you don’t have to drive to get where you’re going. Also, we do have parks, they just aren’t as big as the ones in the burbs. On the other hand, I take my kids to the park far more often than I was taken as a child, since it’s less than a five minute walk away.

Anyway, it’s fine to worry but personally I’d try to hold off until there’s some empirical evidence that there is a problem. If there is (“study shows kids raised in city are maladjusted” — after controlling for all other variables), I’m not aware of it.