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by sokoloff 1 hour ago
Because there’s a heavy bias for people who have use for 4+ bedrooms to also not want to live in an apartment building.

The reasons vary, but I have lived in Boston/Cambridge area for 40 years and can’t think of literally any of my friends who raised a kid past the age of 3 in an apartment, despite many of them (including me) enjoying the apartment life while young and single. But, literally as soon as we could [barely] afford to, we bought a house and only then added to the family.