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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I think the people that play up places like Sacramento are just talking about somewhere that they can afford to buy a single-family house in a middle class neighborhood. In fact, that's almost always what these "affordability" litmus tests boil down to for some reason. They also almost always ignore the cost of transportation, which evens out the true cost gap between "expensive" coastal cities with good transit and sprawly sfh oriented cities with no transit.
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I know two-parent children family is a big demographic, but it's far from being the single one that all those articles suggest. Its share is actually decreasing pretty much everywhere.
And what that demographic (supposedly) wants, it's definitely not what I want in a city or neighborhood.