[xyzelement]

I hear you and congrats on the triplets. In the pure economic sense you are obviously making a choice "I don't love the burbs but this is my best path vs what I can have in the city" which is obviously only possible because those burbs have roads etc. So you're in line with my point here.

[johnkpaul]

:D Thank you! They're no longer babies gratefully so it's a ton of fun.

I'm not so sure that it's only possible to build affordable 3 bedroom homes _because those burbs have roads_. I agree that it's definitely the best path compared to my options in my locale, but there are other cities/countries where I _could_ afford a 3br in an urban environment and the roads are just as rare there.

If affordability were inherently positively tied to land-use-for-roads, I'd understand the argument. For me though, I think affordability is tied to location-demand and way way more people want to live in the urban environment that I'm priced out of.

[xyzelement]

Awesome! I have a 3.5 and 1.5 year old myself and it's immensely fun. I obviously don't know the details of your city to burb transition but in my case (moving from NYC to near-suburb) has been positive. One simple example is my 3.5 year old is now riding a bike. It is a trivial thing to throw his and my bike onto the car and head out to one of the many near-by parks and preserves to ride with him.

In the city, I guess we'd have to walk our bikes to Central Park but also we would struggle to have bike-space in the apartment regardless of size (in the house, they just hang out in the garage) So I wonder if your appreciation of your new lifestyle will change as the kids grow.

Good luck!!!