Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Prices Grew Most

Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by jdavis703 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:53AM (#17293227)

Me and my sister shared a bedroom in a two bedroom apartment for a few years. I recentlty had neighbors that had a one bedroom with two kids. I'm not sure where this requirement of one bedroom per child comes from. Really, that's just a luxury.

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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by smileysteve on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @03:07PM (#17296810)

> I'm not sure where this requirement of one bedroom per child comes from. Really, that's just a luxury

Relavent

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=552528...

> The average American house size has more than doubled since the 1950s; it now stands at 2,349 square feet.

> Back in the 1950s and '60s, people thought it was normal for a family to have one bathroom, or for two or three growing boys to share a bedroom. Well-off people summered in tiny beach cottages on Cape Cod or off the coast of California

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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by iguy on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:40AM (#17293655)

Indeed, I make no claim about the size of house you ought to be able to afford.

But families always have more need of space than the childless. This makes anyone contemplating children very sensitive to questions like "how much of my present after-rent income must I give up for another 100 sq ft?". And this will be very different for the guy who's found himself spending 75% (to be near google, or whatever) and the guy spending 20% (in 1958).

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