Where are all the children in Chicagoland?

by Mike (bart), Friday, February 17, 2017, 06:34 (2615 days ago)

I love this kind of analysis

by LT, Friday, February 17, 2017, 10:10 (2615 days ago) @ Mike (bart)

Would be interested to see it in other cities. It's been interesting watching people do the (intensely personal) calculation about staying in NYC vs. moving out to the burbs, and weirdly, it's one of those things where so many people staying almost makes it hard--public school zoning is a mess and it's harder to get into certain private school kindergartens than Ivy League colleges. My (sadly now former) neighborhood had a massive issue with the terrific zoned public k-5 overcrowding, this article got a lot of national attention when it came out. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/nyregion/race-and-class-collide-in-a-plan-for-two-br...

I found this fairly eye-opening about SF, too. http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Keeping-kids-in-San-Francisco-makes-the-cit...

They are all dead, among the 80% murder rate

by JD in Portland @, Portland OR, Friday, February 17, 2017, 09:56 (2615 days ago) @ Mike (bart)

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That matches our experience in Bucktown.

by MattG, Friday, February 17, 2017, 09:00 (2615 days ago) @ Mike (bart)

Lots of strollers there from 2006-2012 when we moved - and the giant investment in Pulaski Elementary definitely drove some of that growth.

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