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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/mikeyoung44/status/1631140182656253952?s=46&t=RFOp9btBA36axwryPaOF0Q[/twitter][/quote]

I would never live in a dangerous neighborhood if I lived in the city so this is irrelevant.[/quote]

It's very relevant because the average American can only afford housing in the dangerous areas of major cities.  Sure, Cleveland Park is beautiful and walkable and relatively safe, but you need to be able to afford a house that is $2.5M+ and pay $50k a year/kid for private school because the public schools stink.  The average American cannot do that, which is a very big reason that they don't live in urban areas.[/quote]
Or (shocker!) you could live in an apartment like we do. Sure, we're still technically rich (HHI 250k) but we can't buy a home in CP, but we love it here so we rent. It's right near so much nature, very safe, it's a tradeoff well worth it to us. Plus, my kids have some best friends in our building and it's a lovely community.

The thing is that everybody should really evaluate whether you really need 2000sq ft per person in your home. The cost of insisting on that arbitrary need for space is just so high: economically, socially, environmentally. Sure, some of you will need it, but it's like this "given" in our culture and it's just so incredibly untrue. [/quote]
DP, yeah I could live in an apartment but I don’t want to. We lived in a small house close in for years and as the kids got older the space was just too tight and I hated it with every fiber of my being. And we at least didn’t hear people above, below and on either side of us. Some people don’t need personal space, but others do. I cannot overstate how much our whole family’s quality of life has improved since moving further out into a bigger home. We don’t have 2000 sq ft per person, we have 2600 sq ft for a family of 4, and that is a size that is really hard to come by in a safe area of a city or a nice close in suburb for under a million dollars.[/quote]

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