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> And on top of that, are the kind of people who move to NYC or SF already the kind of people planning not to have a kid over the next 5-10 years, or ever? For
by electricslpnsld 9y ago
> And on top of that, are the kind of people who move to NYC or SF already the kind of people planning not to have a kid over the next 5-10 years, or ever?
For what it is worth, NYC as a whole is quite child friendly. Take a stroll around Park Slope and you're tripping over gaggles of children. Now San Francisco? I'm amazed when I see someone under 18.
- nikanj 9y agoLet's say that huge gaggle of kids is is 850 children. New York has some 8 500 000 people living in it. That's an adult-to-kid ratio of one to ten thousand. It's really hard to estimate birth rates by observing people, as our brains just aren't equipped to handle the numbers present. We see the hundreds of children, and flat out refuse to believe there's a decline in births.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoYou can't compare a gaggle of kids in one particular part of Park Slope to the greater New York City metropolitan area and draw a ratio from that. I might as well say that the ratio of rats to people in the city is one-to-eight-million because I saw one rat this morning.
- nikanj 9y agoI think we're saying the same thing. You can't say NY is child friendly, just because you saw a lot of kids at the park.
- jellicle 9y agoSure, it's child-friendly. How many children do you think I can have in my studio apartment? Park Slope has a median real estate price of close to $2 million, and average family incomes well into the six figures.