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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is DCUM so people are going to say that you need $300k+ HHI to raise a family in NYC and that you need to send your kids to private. Neither are true. If you really want to live in NYC it’s completely possible to live in a 2BR rental & send your kids to the local public[/quote] Do you live in there on under a 300k HHI? Please share your expenses then. [/quote] Not PP but the median HHI there is only $127k.[/quote] A lot of people here are young and just starting out, bunking with four roommates and taking advantage of free lunches at work. A lot of people (including almost everyone I know) move to the suburbs once they have kids. It’s just so expensive to raise children here, and honestly gets tiring after a while. I’m a big law partner and even at that income a majority of people move to the suburbs. [/quote] That’s the people you know. There are over 8 million people in the city and plenty of kids grow up in NYC. There are pros and cons to suburban living and city living. [/quote] A disproportionate number of children in NYC schools are either very poor (mostly public schools) or very rich (mostly private schools). It’s not common for middle to upper middle class families (using a generous definition of middle class that would make even the proponents of the term “DCUM middle class” wince) to stay, which is a whole separate topic that causes a lot of angst in NYC school politics. [/quote]
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