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How often do you visit your parents 2 states over, or your parents-in-law who live far away from any airport? Sure, "kids these days" will soon grow up and fig
by kijin 12y ago
How often do you visit your parents 2 states over, or your parents-in-law who live far away from any airport?
Sure, "kids these days" will soon grow up and figure out what they need to get to those places. But the answer might not be "Buy a minivan." It could just as well be "Use this app to rent a self-driving minivan."
Having 3 kids, of course, is a different problem, but a lot of it depends on where you live. I have a hunch that many "kids these days" would hate to live in the same boring suburbs that their parents raised them in. And who knows, maybe Americans will finally rediscover the courage to tell their kids to take the subway to soccer.
- lotharbot 12y agomy parents are nearby, but my wife's parents are about 500 miles away, and we visit several times per year. We'd like to visit more often, but have also had multiple funerals this year that have taken us in the other direction. I'm not suggesting everyone will necessarily own a car. Only that extrapolating from the trends of what young people are currently doing isn't necessarily accurate -- recently graduated singles won't have all of the same life considerations as they will 5-10 years in the future. (Another one: those "boring suburbs" often have much better schools than the "hip" inner city. When you have kids, bad schools become a serious consideration.)