"San Francisco, where the median house price is now about $700,000, had the lowest percentage of people under 18 of any large city in the nation, 14.5 percent, compared with 25.7 percent nationwide, the 2000 census reported. Seattle, where there are more dogs than children, was a close second. Boston, Honolulu, Portland, Miami, Denver, Minneapolis, Austin and Atlanta, all considered, healthy, vibrant urban areas, were not far behind. The problem is not just that American women are having fewer children, reflected in the lowest birth rate ever recorded in the country.
Officials say that the very things that attract people who revitalize a city - dense vertical housing, fashionable restaurants and shops and mass transit that makes a car unnecessary - are driving out children by making the neighborhoods too expensive for young families...New York and Los Angeles, because of their large immigrant populations, have maintained their base of children, but demographers, pointing to falling birth rates among Latinos and other ethnic groups, say the nation's biggest cities may soon follow the others."
El mismo fenómeno se ve en zonas de moda de la Ciudad de México como la Condesa, donde hay más perros que niños. Como dice el NYT, lo que hace esas áreas tan trendies las hace muy caras, y así, inalcanzables para las familias jóvenes. Primero son los barrios de moda, luego las ciudades enteras, y luego las naciones. ¿Qué hacer para que las parejas se sientan bien para tener hijos?
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