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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or an apartment. That's what we did. We live in a 1200 sq ft apartment in the city. Two bedrooms, just one kid (not enough space for more!). It works for us -- city amenities, reasonable mortgage, home is in great shape and upgraded. If we wanted the kind of sitcom house you're talking about, we'd have to move to a suburb, probably not close in, and likely it would need a lot of updates.

I do think that one way to deal with our very real housing crisis in the country is to get more people okay with living in multi-family buildings, and also to build more multi-family housing that is actually for families. Our home was absolutely designed for a single person or a childless couple (like 90% of new condos). The assumption outside of NYC is that people with kids will live in a SFH. But it's not necessary. Families live in apartments all over the world and in most of the world, it's not considered a mark of poverty or like you are offering your kids less. One reason we have chosen to stay in the city is that we feel it offers our kid more opportunities than we could reach in a more distant suburb. Yes, we'd have a yard. But going to the park to play isn't that bad, and we also have lots of [free] museums, classes in almost anything  you'd want within walking or a short ride on public transport. Plus tons of diversity of every kind so our kid is exposed to lots of different kinds of people, which s an education in and of itself.

I also remember lots of 80s shows in apartments and grew up assuming this was a normal way to live. My Two Dads, Perfect Strangers, and reruns of Laverne & Shirley and Mary Tyler Moore. Apartments can be a great place to raise a family.[/quote]

Don’t forget “One Day at a Time”.[/quote]

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