The Rise of Family- Friendly Cities

Joel Kotkin has some interesting things to say in the Wall Street Journal:

Urban centers that have been traditional favorites for young singles, such as Chicago, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, have experienced below-average job and population growth since 2000. San Francisco and Chicago lost population during that period; even immigrant-rich New York City and Los Angeles County have shown barely negligible population growth in the last two years, largely due to a major out-migration of middle class families.

If you read one thing today,this should be it.It's very difficult to maintain population growth with high taxes,long commutes,and bad public school systems.