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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What line of work are most of these people in? It sounds a lot like a bedroom community where the dads all commute to Big City to work similar industries. You should live in a university town. Academics aren't like this, they are much more diverse in origin and tend to have lived all over before settling into a tenured position.[/quote]

Ha, I posted about living on the fringes of a social neighborhood and I live a short walk from a major university and we chose it for that reason. Our neighborhood when we moved in 12 years ago was almost entirely older academics, low-key lawyers and doctors at the university hospital who had to be within call radius. Now it's just a few academics and mostly tech bros, finance types, real estate developers, and people with mysteriously large amounts of income and free time and no apparent employment.

A lot of families skew much younger than they used to- we were in our early 30s when we had our first kid and that was typical of our area. Now nice, 3000 sq ft tudors and craftsmen are regularly replaced with 6000 sq ft modern farmhouse new builds and being bought by 30 year olds who already have 3 kids. There is a ton of young, generational wealth changing neighborhoods quickly. I think that alters the social scene dramatically.

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