ScottishCalvin t1_jad5nkh wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:14 PM

Reply to comment by SaltPepperKetchup215 in Is germantown friends school as good as they say? by snooloosey

I think by the time kids are older, the parents too are older and more keen to move to the suburbs rather than needing to be able to go out in the city midweek. Most of the reasons for being in a city are things that appeal to you a lot when you're 20-something but less so a decade later

jea25 t1_jadjutx wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:44 PM

I am one of those parents that will soon be going through the high school application process with my kid and frankly, once you’ve been in the city with kids long enough, you have learned how to navigate the school system, your kids are old enough to get places on their own without you needing to drive them everywhere, and by that point the suburban lifestyle really lacks appeal. There are plenty of people that bail early when their kids are in early elementary, but I think they probably always planned on leaving. I think you can talk yourself into anything, but every time we have seriously considered leaving the city, we just couldn’t find a place we thought we’d be as happy.