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It seems like dual-income, no kids is the gold standard for those to financially get ahead.
I can say in my experience Salt Lake City and Denver have a large amount dual-income, no-kids households.
Salt Lake City actually has a very percentage of children in the city proper but it is quite married and there alot of co-habitating couples also in that city.
Salt Lake City is comprised of only 19.8% under 18 compared to 28.2% in Fort Worth.
Denver also fits this demographic also, a very coupled city but fairly low percentage of families with children.
I would also say Fargo, Bismarck, Grand Forks, Minneapolis would fit this bill. Very coupled or married but relatively low percentage of households with children.
San Francisco has to be among the big cities with the most DINKs. Can't remember where, but I seem to have read that only about 17% of the population is under 18. Don't know if that's accurate, but it feels accurate when I'm out there.
The core of most of the biggest cities are virtually kid free. Often the corporate or income climbing DINKS will be with the singles in the more urban and dense enclaves of the city I know this is true in the south.. Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston. and the best part is there are less school zones in morning traffic. ughhh.
The core of most of the biggest cities are virtually kid free. Often the corporate or income climbing DINKS will be with the singles in the more urban and dense enclaves of the city I know this is true in the south.. Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston. and the best part is there are less school zones in morning traffic. ughhh.
There are very few children in Raleigh's city center but there are some schools nearby that serve mostly adjacent neighborhoods where there are children. I have a condo in downtown Raleigh and I don't think that the building has a single child residing in it full time. I have seen the occasional child visiting a parent that probably has some sort of part time custody right.
I think that the idea of children in a city center is probably a more foreign concept in the South. While one might presume that there would be more kids in the rapidly growing Southern city centers because these metros simply have more kids to begin with, I would think the opposite, that children would probably be really rare in their city centers. It may be different for the largest cities like Atlanta, Houston and Dallas but my gut tells me otherwise.
I also have a condo in South Beach and one might think that there would be even less kids than there would be in Raleigh but the truth is opposite. While there's not a lot of them, there have always been a number of kids in the building. I attribute this to the enormous Latin American urban immigrant population in Miami that doesn't have the same cultural stigma to raising kids in urban centers that seems to be pervasive across most of the U.S.
Of course, my comments are about parental choice. Parents in Raleigh are not choosing to live in a $300,000 urban 2 bedroom condos when that same money will by them a house that's double that size 10 miles away. I understand that there are people who are in urban centers that are economically disadvantaged and have less options and control over their choices; my comments are not intended to speak for them.
The north side of Chicago has a TON, since it's mostly younger professional transplants who live there. Both people in the relationship work, and most don't have kids because they skip to the suburbs before the kids are age 5 or so.
Nyc, everyone has a roommate, makes them dual income unless you need them to be married
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