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And woe to the millennial who dares dream of starting a family, warns Myra Lara, a 30-year-old architect and affordability advocate. Of her Seattle friends who have become parents, all but one has been exiled to the suburbs. “It sucks—I never see them,” says Lara. “But that’s what they have to do.”

Lol "woe" indeed. This is probably the ultimate first-world problem.

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There are a couple of things mentioned in that sentence. Can you say which one you think is the "ultimate first-world problem?"

>There are a couple of things mentioned in that sentence. Can you say which one you think is the "ultimate first-world problem?"

Not the GP, but I think GP was referring to the dismay expressed over having one's friends move away to the suburbs.

I mean, we would love to have affordable suburban houses within easy commuting distance of tech jobs in the Bay Area. So it certainly seems like a rather enviable "problem" that families in Seattle are able to move from the urban core to the suburbs...

I live in the Central District in Seattle, which is like a 10 minute bike ride from the downtown core. Before moving here I lived in Wallingford for twenty years. I have two children now, both under 5 years old and I can attest that I never see my friends, even the one that lives two blocks away. I'm pretty sure this is an effect of parenthood in general, not geography. We'll probably move north to Shoreline soon, not because the city has exiled us, but because it would be nice for our kids to have a yard to play in and we don't frequent the nearby bars and restaurants nearly as often as we used to.

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