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> > There are plenty of children in dense areas. > Yes, in desperately poor neighborhoods. That's called an "inverted J curve". Sorry, but this is just incorr
by amluto 2mo ago
> > There are plenty of children in dense areas.
> Yes, in desperately poor neighborhoods. That's called an "inverted J curve".
Sorry, but this is just incorrect. There are plenty of people who are far from desperately poor, live in dense areas and/or highly transit-oriented areas, and have kids. Sadly, the US has spent many decades making it hard to build family oriented (>=2 bedroom) housing in these areas, so there are fewer such families than might otherwise live in such areas, but these families are far from absent.
- cyberax 2mo ago> Sorry, but this is just incorrect. Are you arguing with the reality? > There are plenty of people who are far from desperately poor, No, there aren't "plenty" of them _statistically_. Can you find individuals with 4 children in Manhattan? Of course. But there won't be _a_ _lot_ of them. The total fertility rate is inversely correlated with the density. You can just check the Census age bracket data if you doubt me. > Sadly, the US has spent many decades making it hard to build family oriented (>=2 bedroom) housing in these areas No. The US made it possible to build dense housing that displaced family-oriented homes. And dense housing will ALWAYS be small. I live in Seattle, and there are no regulations that prohibit real estate developers from building 3-bedroom apartments. They don't do it because it's far more profitable to build three 1-bedroom studios instead.