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And I know that ranking is bs because I was just there. There are definitely some trendy spots here and there, but they are mostly around the downtown area. Rest of the metro is as normal as it gets.
What does normal even mean, though? Not hip? Not yuppie?
Yuppie. Bourgeois, but in a socially conscious way. Basically I want to know where a lot of people are like the Obamas, but with three and four kids per family (which I don't actually think is Chicago).
Yuppie. Bourgeois, but in a socially conscious way. Basically I want to know where a lot of people are like the Obamas, but with three and four kids per family (which I don't actually think is Chicago).
Maybe you're asking for something that doesn't exist. You want a location full of people who based on their demographics and lifestyle would typically have one or maybe two kids, except that they actually have three or four kids. I don't think you're going to find it, because there aren't that many families like that.
Maybe you're asking for something that doesn't exist. You want a location full of people who based on their demographics and lifestyle would typically have one or maybe two kids, except that they actually have three or four kids. I don't think you're going to find it, because there aren't that many families like that.
You are not wrong. I'm only asking which of the places I've listed is most saturated with these sorts of families, even if it is still a small number relative to the general population.
If you were to adjust the question to 1-2 kids, then the answer would be the nicer city neighborhoods in Tier 1 cities like NYC, LA, SF, Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, etc. These are actually the primary demographics in a lot of these areas (think Park Slope in NYC). I know where I am in Hoboken this is the overwhelming majority to the point of it becoming a punchline. On any given Saturday, the city's wine bars and biergarton may actually double as daycare centers, with the Matt Berninger-looking dads tending to their flock while nursing a barrel-aged saison.
All that said, when you up the kids to 3-4, that changes things a lot. That means, barring some miracle of domesticity, that one parent would likely be "stay-at-home". One of the themes that many of the "adult-hip" areas have in common is two working parents, to, you know, stay on top of the latest trends at their super cool offices. Now, you have one parent who spends all day with a gaggle of children, inherently making them less hip. It becomes a self-fulfilling negative feedback loop of un-hipness. Long way of saying I don't think what you're looking for really exists, at least if we have the same definition of hip.
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