If you had the money, would you raise your kids in NYC?

[Anonymous]

Why in the world would you expose your children to all that?

[Anonymous]

Another hell no here. Too much concrete, metal, & hoards of people. Not enough grass, trees, & space to move. Nice to visit, not to live.

[Anonymous]

Lived in NYC until our child was 1.5. Enjoyed the time when we were there, but have no regrets about leaving for a suburban lifestyle.

[Anonymous]

No. Mainly because of the other parents. Everyone is extremely focused on money. Parents fall in one of two categories typically 1) career obsessed and kids raised by a nanny or 2) mom not working but incredibly active social life and kids still mostly left with a nanny

[Anonymous]

I don’t know enough about NYC, but yes, with a lot of money I would raise kids there. With a lot of money, there are a lot of places I would raise kids.

[Anonymous]

I went to law school at Columbia and felt the same way. It was like everything was closing in on me, and it was hard to escape.

(I also thought that that a lot of the kids from NYC were not nice and some of them were weirdly provincial. They had never left the city and seemed to think the rest of the country existed to supply NYC with resources, like the districts in the Hunger Games. I told one of my classmates that I was looking at joining a law firm in Cleveland, and he told me that he didn’t realize that I was interested in “farm law”).

Lol love that kid!

[Anonymous]

Only if I could afford a helicopter and not have to sit in traffic every time I wanted to escape the city

[Anonymous]

1000% nope. Before kids we lived in NYC and moved the second we decided to have kids. The almost non existent green space is what did it for us. Plus, Manhattan is just not as kid friendly as the burbs. Maybe Brooklyn, but we weren’t willing to move there. Plus all our friends who did have small kids in Brooklyn eventually decided to move so we wouldn’t have known anyone.

[Anonymous]

No. I’ve lived there before and every time I go back it’s just too busy and dirty for me. I need space. Nova was even too many people for me.

[Anonymous]

We had all that and left. The private schools are nice but cost ~55k/year per kid from K on. Getting in and out of the city is a massive PITA. So we moved to our country place (in a suburb with excellent schools) and I regret not leaving 2 years ago. I missed greenery and open space so much. Our schools are more rigorous out here too.

I miss my friends, how walkable it was, running into random friends outside and the playground scene.

[Anonymous]

A lot of people seem to get their ideas of nyc from movies and TV.

We live in NYC, but in a quiet corner with a lot of international neighbors and several nearby parks. Middle or upper middle class. Kids are in public school, which they love and is much more rigorous than their DC area school. The kids actually seem more innocent than in DC - our 5th grader still pretend plays with her friends in the garden area of our apartment building. They have a whole gnome village hidden in the plants. They spend hours there, and the doormen keep their secret.

The adults in NYC are not obsessed with status or what colleges they went to, unlike when we were in DC. I know what college every single person I know in DC went to, but I have no idea where our friends in nyc went to college (although a lot are international so it would be meaningless to me anyway). People do talk incessantly about real estate though. That gets old.

Also, people here keep saying at NYC is dysfunctional. When comparing NYC to DC, this is not our experience at all. DC was pretty dysfunctional, too, and not as safe as our neighborhood in NYC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people seem to get their ideas of nyc from movies and TV.

We live in NYC, but in a quiet corner with a lot of international neighbors and several nearby parks. Middle or upper middle class. Kids are in public school, which they love and is much more rigorous than their DC area school. The kids actually seem more innocent than in DC - our 5th grader still pretend plays with her friends in the garden area of our apartment building. They have a whole gnome village hidden in the plants. They spend hours there, and the doormen keep their secret.

The adults in NYC are not obsessed with status or what colleges they went to, unlike when we were in DC. I know what college every single person I know in DC went to, but I have no idea where our friends in nyc went to college (although a lot are international so it would be meaningless to me anyway). People do talk incessantly about real estate though. That gets old.

Also, people here keep saying at NYC is dysfunctional. When comparing NYC to DC, this is not our experience at all. DC was pretty dysfunctional, too, and not as safe as our neighborhood in NYC.

Delusional

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people seem to get their ideas of nyc from movies and TV.

We live in NYC, but in a quiet corner with a lot of international neighbors and several nearby parks. Middle or upper middle class. Kids are in public school, which they love and is much more rigorous than their DC area school. The kids actually seem more innocent than in DC - our 5th grader still pretend plays with her friends in the garden area of our apartment building. They have a whole gnome village hidden in the plants. They spend hours there, and the doormen keep their secret.

The adults in NYC are not obsessed with status or what colleges they went to, unlike when we were in DC. I know what college every single person I know in DC went to, but I have no idea where our friends in nyc went to college (although a lot are international so it would be meaningless to me anyway). People do talk incessantly about real estate though. That gets old.

Also, people here keep saying at NYC is dysfunctional. When comparing NYC to DC, this is not our experience at all. DC was pretty dysfunctional, too, and not as safe as our neighborhood in NYC.

This has to be the biggest joke ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I’ve lived there for a few years and it’s just resting on its old laurels, the city is trash, literal trash. The crime is bad and it’s always been, democrats or not, it was never safe in certain places.


Now if I had all the money in the world, I’d spend it all to live in DC. I loved that place so goddam much and had to leave after 15 years because of kids and house and blah blah. DC is special, very special, and those that can afford to live there are very lucky.

I’m sorry but I literally just laughed out loud

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are and we love it. One kid, private school, big brownstone, and the city at our feet. Crazy expensive but worth it if you can swing it.

This is my life in DC. Big row home with plenty of outdoor space, one kid, private school, quiet neighborhood. You couldn’t pay me to live in New York.

Except dc is not nyc