> As cities become more desirable, and as housing prices there increase, the reasons for moving to the burbs shrink. Except that rising housing prices are the

> As cities become more desirable, and as housing prices there increase, the reasons for moving to the burbs shrink. Except that rising housing prices are the number one driver of people to the suburbs. Any urban area nice enough to want to raise kids in, is too expensive for most families to actually do so. And that's the situation today -- I can't imagine how much harder it will be in the future, when cities have even higher property values.