[TheFuture]

> I don't plan on ever giving up the pace and energy of the metropolis

Until you have kids, and you see how most urban school districts are run. This is the same reason our parents left the city and moved to the burbs. Things are not really as different now as we think.

Though now there is a huge opportunity to reduce the cost and drastically improve K12 education. If our generation can break the entrenched bureaucracy of public education, then I would say urbanization in the US could be more than a consequence of Gen Y being poor and delaying starting a family.

[api]

Also, space. If you have kids, space will become more important.

As soon as you even think about having kids, absolutely everything about how the suburbs are designed suddenly makes sense.

I still prefer an urban setting though.