I'm not sure if its a generation or just a certain class of recent generations (upper middle class). Cities are fun when you can afford the amenities, and cars

I'm not sure if its a generation or just a certain class of recent generations (upper middle class). Cities are fun when you can afford the amenities, and cars degrade QOL in the desirable areas. But when you have kids (and thus can't live by spending 60% of your take-home pay on a subway adjacent one bedroom apartment) cars become a lot more necessary. And if you are middle class or working class, then you can't even afford to live within an easy subway commute--kids or not. And sure, I've had two kids in the city, but I spent more on rent than an average person makes in a year--and that was in Chicago, an "affordable" big city.