[deltarholamda]

You don't mention children, but that's an important data point. Your small apartment is suddenly smaller, and if you want to be in a good public school district, your rent options are now a lot more expensive. Or you can go private, and suddenly discover brand new ways to have no money.

A lot of singles and DINKs like this sort of arrangement, but a community that has few or no children is dying, if not already dead.

Mobility is less of an option once you have children embedded into the community. Moving across the country is exciting and fun, until it means uprooting your kids. That's how a city, town, neighborhood maintains stability. Transients are not a long-term solution.

Cities chased out families with ever-increasing costs. This worked okay as long as business needed to be conducted in cities. That's no longer the case, turning our urban centers into glorified roadside RV parks.

[deeptote]

I'd love to move to NY but yeah, I have kids now and moving them from the acreage and amazing school district we have now is just not really an option.