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I grew up in a Bronx projects, designed by a noted architect (it’s even in the AIA Guide) who specialized in urban projects with lot of open spaces. It was a great place to grow up. With the right architect, even big, dense, urban projects are good places to raise kids.
If you couldn’t post for an hour and a half, I guess they kept you in check 🙂
I’m sorry- who are you?
Even before we got an air conditioner last year, my electric bills have been $45-50.
gas and electric is $24.OO???? What do you do- have one fluorescent light bulb and a hand cranked generator?
when I was growing up we were always outside and running around on our own, but the place I grew up really made that easy. We were nearly always enclosed withing the projects- which stretched over several blocks and had small exits to the street from the courtyards, not wide open to the street. There were external entrances as well for those apartment buildings that fronted on the actual street but lived in a courtyard building. And the neighbors knew us all- which meant they spied on you for your parents. But that was a different time, I’m afraid.
you didn’t 😉
Jessi, this is what you wrote originally:
I think if you have a kid, it’s almost a crime to raise them exclusively in a dirty ass city – not good for lungs, not good for spirit. If you live here, you should have a cottage upstate or something.
depends on the burb and depends on the school in the city. My daughter has had great experiences in all her schools, and Union Free School District 17 in Hicksville, LI, NY was NOT great then and still looks pretty mediocre. I had family friends growing up and going to public schools in Brooklyn and the Bronx and they learned more than I did at school. Ditto many of the kids I met in college who were from the city.