Re:San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide
by closeparen on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @09:59AM
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Not to dismiss this completely, but there are neighborhoods with lots of kids around. SOMA just isn’t one of them.
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SF has one of the lowest % of kids of any major US city.
https://www.sfgate.com/mommyfiles/article/Many-families-leav...
Re:San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide
by closeparen on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:13AM
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I should rephrase: there are definitely neighborhoods with lots of babies and toddlers. School aged children are a rare sight.
What's curious: this stat actually fails to represent quite how many parents from more normal surroudning communities bring their kids into SF because of the co-op school opportunities there. SF has done a lot of work to make co-op schools work, so lots of people with kids under 9 (myself included) find outright superior education options by bringing our kids into SF. It does involve putting parent hours towards the school, but many people with young kids are already geared for less raw hours towards work (either through superior economic resources or local support; everyone who can't hack it relies purely on the public systems).