City Mouse, Country Mouse: Who Spends More?

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The new American dream. The high-earners move back to the urban core. They bid up the housing there and push the under-employed former (minority) urban dwellers out to the outer burbs over a generation or two.

The ones who have no children do this much more easily, because they don't worry so much about sending their kids to a war zone (aka school) on a bus.

of @ Aug 20, 2008 16:43:19 PM

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