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Do you and your friends make a lot of money? I’m the same age, and the only people I know starting families in the city are high income professionals. My wife and I (snobby city people) toughed it out until our daughter was ready for kindergarten, but even we weren’t willing to spend $1 million+ on a house in one of the few good school districts in DC when the time for that came.

I’ve traded cocktails at the Peninsula for, well, cocktails at the Maggianos, but I can park right next to the entrance and not have to drag a stroller around, so that’s pretty great.

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I’ve traded cocktails at the Peninsula for, well, cocktails at the Maggianos, but I can park right next to the entrance and not have to drag a stroller around, so that’s pretty great.

Driving to a bar to drink alcohol is great? It's better than being able to walk to a bar or take public transit? How? To me that sounds incredibly reckless.

If you’re planning on having more than a couple of cocktails with dinner, you can always Uber. Ride sharing has been a huge boon for suburban areas. We can actually walk to a bar from our house (there happens to be a bar in our car dependent suburb) but it’s only a $10 Uber ride to the downtown of the satellite city where we live. For the two of us, Metro fare in DC wouldn’t be all that much cheaper.

Well, you’ve certainly changed rayiner :)

I have a distinct memory of you taking the other side in a comment a couple years ago (too lazy to dig it out now) talking about how easy it is being in nyc transit with a stroller

Oh man. When my wife and I were in our 20s with one kid in New York, being hip urban parents was easy. I did not realize how unscalable that was. The second kid kills you.

I am a pretend dad of three kids (I babysit my sisters kids very often). Once the littlest is above 4, it gets a lot easier. :)

Based on these replies, I guess it is just my bubble.

My peers and I graduated into the finance boom and were able to ride the paycheck economy before the Great Recession.

what is the paycheck economy?

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