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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who lives in the city, I find being a “city person” sort or laughable, especially if you have kids.  Who cares at some point?  Are you really going to a lot of killer restaurant and bars if you have kids?  Even if you are, isn’t there a point in your life where that all starts to seem a bit shallow?  I would stay where you are.  Frankly, op, you sound a bit childish to me.[/quote]

No, you don't go to the killer restaurants and bars but you are able to take your kids to world class museums, theater, diverse schools, high-quality extra curricurlers, etc without having to drive everywhere. [/quote]

NYC is probably the only US city with extra curriculars that does not require driving.

Museums get old.  After the age of 9 your kids won’t want to hand at Smithsonian museums. I wouldn’t want to take the metro there on the weekend with kids and crime that has been going on.

There is theatre in all large cities and most suburbs/towns. Most people don’t go to the theatre weekly when they have kids.

Most cities don’t have diverse schools.  They have schools with poor minority kids and then private schools or magnets for wealthy whites.  [/quote]

I think OP should clearly move -- she sounds miserable!!  But as a Chicagoan, I can say there is a lot of truth to this post, particularly the part about the public schools.  Chicago is, sadly, one of the most segregated cities in the world.  Literally.  There is a long history why.  The public K-8 schools are NOT diverse, they are very very much as this PP describes.   Although it's not only magnets for whites, it's also how the neighborhood schools look (given the segregation).  It's horrible, actually.   The SEHS and magnet high school system compounds the problem -- draining all the resources away from neighborhood schools.

Once we had kids, we needed a car in Chicago.  We walk things like restaurants, grocery store....but not to activities.  And if you don't do your neighborhood school for K-8 (there are a lot of "magnet" schools that you lottery, not test, into) then you might find that you need a car to get to school (there are almost no school buses of course).

Starting around age 8-9, my older DD wanted playdates on the weekend, not outings with us.  [/quote]

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