Towns within an hour of a bigger city, but small enough where the real estate is still reasonably priced.
Maybe when this young adult generation starts to consider kids, this option might become attractive.
This is more rare than you would think, depending on your definitions of "bigger city" and "reasonably priced". It's definitely more rare than it used to be.
Part of that is the increase in housing prices, as detailed in this and other articles. But part of it is a contraction of what's "within an hour", due to crumbling public transit infrastructure.
That doesn't make sense to me. What sort of forces do you imagine will cause one school to have better students than another, consistently for decades?
Not, mind you, because poor kids are exceptionally poor students on their own, but because their parents tend to have less time and money to support them.
That kind of demographic shift takes a generation or more to really occur. It hasn't even been 4 years since remote work took off with the pandemic.
Not every job also supports a remote work lifestyle.
Haha. In my EU region those towns, and even villages around those towns are outpriced. What you can afford with a garden, 2-3 rooms you need to look in end of world villages, and those building are from the 60-70s.