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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here. I would add, it’s so hard not to get stuck inside when living in apartment with kids during COVID. We go out twice per day, and once we are in that’s it. Unless my partner watches the kids so I can step outside, I am inside at 6 to cook dinner and I don’t get outside until the next day. I crave summer nights and i can never enjoy them in an apartment. Unless you have a balcony there is no drinking a glass of wine on the porch and watching the baby monitor or sipping my coffee in a robe while I open up the back door and smell the fresh air. It pains me sometime as I used to spend most of my life outside, I love to garden, love riding bikes, but the community garden is 3 miles away, getting bikes out of the basement locker in the locked bike room with kids means I have to remember 4 sets of keys for the room and each locked bike, bring all my tools and pump and then return them to the unit so they aren’t stolen (I’ve had two
Bikes stolen already even with locks), etc. OP you are living in a fantasy world if you are covering this. Also, not to mention the thousands of dollars we throw away every month for rent.[/quote]

PP from earlier in the thread who is loving city living with my kids, but I have some private outdoor space.  I also crave the summer night air and I'd be miserable if I couldn't step outside in my pjs and have a glass of wine and breathe it all in.  So I think the micro details of one's living situation can make or break everything.  This could be a minute as one apartment unit vs another in the same complex.

I totally push back against the pp 2 entries up who is decamping for the suburbs.  Covid was terrifying, yes, and city living was much harder in many ways earlier on.    But now we know we're not catching covid from surfaces, etc, I have minimal fear sharing surface space with strangers.  I guess if you're germaphobic and are waiting for the next pandemic then city living would be a nightmare.  Not saying that's the pp I'm referencing, but that was the vibe I got.

My parents in the suburbs implored us to stay with them. I doubled-down on city life because the vibrancy of my community -- even with strangers -- really got me and my family through the hard times.  I don't think I'll ever look back at our nightly 7pm clapping and cheering for first responders and not tear up and fill with pride for my city.  It's an experience I'm thankful I got to share with my then-4yo.  [/quote]

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