Families Leaving Suburbia For The City

For some New York families the move from the city to the suburbs is not all that it is cracked up to be.

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January 9, 2006, 6:00 AM PST

"For many New York City families, January is the cruelest month. It is a time to get seriously claustrophobic in an apartment stocked with young children and the vast plastic undergrowth in which they thrive. It also a time for many to ponder the absurdity (or impossibility) of paying thousands upon thousands of dollars for private-school tuition, soon due for the coming semester.

But those plotting a hasty exit to the suburbs (the space! the schools! the space!) may want to consider the experience of others who went before them, only to double back within a year.

"I'm never leaving the city again; I'm terrified of leaving the city," said Anna Hillen, 42, summing up the prevailing sentiment among the repatriates interviewed for this article."

Thanks to Mike Lydon

Read the full story: Goodbye, Suburbs

Sunday, January 8, 2006 in The New York Times

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