"Walk?"
Because cities stink...literally,in many cases.
Then why does practically everyone who doesn’t live here strive to come here?
"Walk?"
Families with children have been fleeing big cities by the tens of millions and moving to exurbia. One of the primary reasons families give for fleeing big cities is because they are not family friendly. The cities aren’t family-friendly because the cities are run by insane liberals.
key phrase “in the cities”
Move to one of the thousands of nice small towns in Flyover Country and you still won’t have to lock your doors (well, most of the time).
Yeah, that’s an issue. But also “good schools” tend to have the offspring of high-achieving parents—who tend to live in expensive neighborhoods.
Neighborhoods used to be fine until the government removed vagrancy laws. Now the bums are everywhere!
Where can you walk safely in the USA? You can be killed by a car or a street savage.
I live in a county with very few A&B schools. The houses in those districts are outrageously expensive, even if they are dumps. You can buy a very nice house in a bad school district for a third to half as much as the better district. This is not a money problem, as this county out spends the adjacent rural county on a per pupil basis. The adjacent county has all A&B schools. This is despite having the same racial mix and lower income parents. What is the difference? My county has been run by Democrats for about a hundred years. The poorer one is much more conservative.
Is anyone else amused that the morons at the Ass Press use a DC neighborhood as an example of a “good” neighborhood?
Funny thing is - I would bet that many/most of them came from good neighborhoods.
But that came with all that White Privilege so - that’s bad. Very bad.
re: rasonable relative to neighborhood incomes
That is key. Most of us try to live above our means for instant gratification.
On schools, they have HD Cooke Elementary. Don't go there if you don't speak good Spanish. And don't send your kids there if you want them to learn anything. They are failing even by miserable DCPS standards.
Now as far as affordable housing, if renting a 2BR apartment for over $2,500 a month (and as high as $4K a month) is affordable, then, well, your idea of affordable is a little different than mine.
Of course, you might buy rather than rent. A 2BR condo will only run you between $400K and $1M, while you can secure a townhouse for a little north of $1M. Just so long as you don't try for a single family house...then you're looking somewhere north of $3M.
Talk about affordable!!
I love my neighborhood. Lots of kids who play or ride their bikes in the streets, schools nearby, lots of fathers out in the evening playing ball with the kids. No condos or row houses, no bars, shops, restaurants, stores or exercise businesses within walking distance. Want those things, don’t move here or have a car. And we are in Texas, not DC or Seattle.
Because few of us want "walkable" if we are not hipsters and few hipsters care about "good schools" because they do not have children.
Lack of demand.
Blame the federal judges who engaged in a huge, failed, social experiment that destroyed urban school systems, and resulted in ethnic cleansing of whites.
The government mandates that my elementary school is filled with bussed illegals and the poor, so it’s not an environment that is conducive to learning, or even safe.
Thus I must pay over 10k a year to insulate my child.
Why do I even pay taxes?