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Yeah but Americans are taught to think cities are scary and suburban sprawl is safe, even though you're several times more likely to die in a car accident than
by droidist2 11y ago
Yeah but Americans are taught to think cities are scary and suburban sprawl is safe, even though you're several times more likely to die in a car accident than being murdered in a city, not to mention health problems in kids whose primary exercise is walking to and from their parents' minivan.
- ghaff 11y agoIn all fairness, that wasn't a completely inaccurate generalization in the 1970s or so. That's changed a lot for the most part, but a number of effects linger such as the quality of most urban public schools. Therefore, for a variety of reasons--including having more space--many (though of course not all) middle class+ families still are inclined to move to the suburbs when they have children. With respect to exercise, you'd have to convince me that kids living in a city condo/apartment routinely get more exercise than ones in the suburbs.