As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, not all cities are created equal. I spent a decade or so in Atlanta (ages 18-28), and I agree that if I were to have kid

As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, not all cities are created equal. I spent a decade or so in Atlanta (ages 18-28), and I agree that if I were to have kids there I'd almost certainly move out to the suburbs (probably Decatur, certainly not something like Roswell or Alpharetta). Now I live in Seattle, though, and here I'm likely to stay in the city. Everything here feels denser, and there are a number of nice neighborhoods within the city where you can buy a nice (albeit obscenely expensive) home. I hear the schools aren't bad either. I see a lot of families around town made up of people that seem a lot like me. I never saw that in Atlanta.