>We've priced our children out of the towns we raised them in

Alternatively, "our children left behind the sprawling 2nd and 3rd-string metros we raised them in, realized what rent costs in walkable neighborhoods in destination cities, and are finally beginning to appreciate why we raised them in sleepy suburbs in flyover country and why they spent so much time in cars."

Obviously some children got priced out of the Bay Area, but I think most of the rent crisis is attributable to people who grew up in low density now seeking high density.