[shantly]

Good public schools (or good private schools, for that matter) can be hard to come by out in the sticks, for those to whom that's important. Hard in the city, too—there's a reason so many families, even those of us who would prefer either the city or the country, end up in the 'burbs.

[nikanj]

In a big city, your kid won't fit into the kindergarten. In the sticks, there is no kindergarten.

Things suck for young middle-class families.

[shantly]

Between the money-based fight to get your kids in better schools (public or private, it's money either way, just a matter of whether the money's in tuition or housing) and health care it does kind of seem like the system's designed to eat every last dollar a normal to well-off-but-not-actually-rich family can get their hands on.

[JoelMcCracken]

of course, these people pay a lot of the taxes. the rich don't, and poor just don't have the money to pay.

[JoelMcCracken]

Great point; for us, we do not want children and are sure they are not coming, so this does not factor into our considerations.