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by dionidium 1633 days ago
Automobile accidents are the leading cause of child death.
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That's true.

It's also true that people very, very commonly move to the suburbs once they have children, and it's not because those people are all morons.

I just turned 41 and my son turns one in January. I can think of a million reasons to leave the city and in fact my wife and I are strongly considering it, but the necessary reliance on cars in the suburbs is an enormous deterrent. I’ve lived that way before, so I know what’s bad about it. We are probably only going to consider walkable small towns (as opposed to car dependent exurbia).