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You are talking about high rise high density family living, what other city do you know in the US that provides this example?  Also, I am not the one to bring up NYC first on this thread, but at least I have direct experience with it.  If you feel like it truly takes away from the discussion, I will stop. I've wasted enough time already.

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I brought it up first, in an aside to indicate that culture can change to make raising a family in an apt more acceptable.

I am quite familiar with NYC. I grew up there, in a condo.   Family of four, we were happy, it was delightful.

I have friends who still live there, one is a family who raised two kids in a condo on the UES.  I go back there often, and see plenty of kids from the UWS to Park Slope to Boro Park.

We lived with our child for a time in an apt in NoVa.

I know of people who raised kids in apts in Boston and I am pretty sure people do in the Bay Area and other US cities, and of course its even more common and accepted in europe.

I did NOT mean to say anything about 30 stories vs 6 stories, nor to suggest that DC would every look like Manhattan.

Apparently I have triggered something in you, because while there is no policy question that we appear to have an issue with, you don't seem capable of letting this go.

Of course many people prefer to raise kids in houses, even in places where it is more acceptable to raise them in multifamily.  And if you have had a bad experience raising kids in multifamily, I am sorry for you.  But I am not suggesting EVERYONE do that, merely suggesting that IF  having kids in DC is going remain an option in DC, for significant numbers of families, it will need to become more socially acceptable to do so.  That is all.  Nothing more than that.   Sorry that the suggestion that some non-trivial number of people could have good lives raising kids in multifamily is so triggering for you. [/quote]

If you consider human nature, then it only will become "socially acceptable" when the alternatives to apartment living become exorbitant enough that it's not affordable to anyone but the wealthiest .01%.  Until then there will be this economic hardship stigma attached to families choosing to live in apartments when supply of private homes exists in abundance, because for majority of people it's more desirable to raise a family.   Huge luxury apartments in nice neighborhoods are the only exception, but they are not economically plausible like SFHs and are indeed luxury, so many families forgo them in favor of private homes in good school districts. [/quote]

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