Non-family households in the suburbs grew more than twice the increase in the cities. These are the new "swinging suburbs".
Joel Kotkin writes that ever since they began to mushroom and surround our nation's urban centers, suburbs have been widely seen as the bastion of the traditional family...Developers -- from Long Island to the booming outskirts of the Sunbelt cities -- constantly sold suburbia as the proverbial "great place to raise a family."Yet today, real estate investors and developers need to revise their view of suburbs. The new census details a remarkable turnaround: there are now more non-family households than households with children living at home in the "burbs"...changing the once-staid suburbs into the rapidly emerging "swinging suburbs"...
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