Modern Wisdom · 2025-07-03 · 108 min · 18,435 words

The Real Reason Birth Rates Are Falling - Lyman Stone - #962

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How did you get into neighborhood design beef on Twitter? So, I mean, somebody shared a photo of, it was like an aerial photo of some neighborhood in Phoenix, and they were like, how would any, I forget what exactly it was, but they're like, how would any human ever want to live here? I was like, I mean, it looks like kind of a nice neighborhood. Like people have pools in their backyard. Um, it doesn't have like a big highway cutting through it or anything.

Um, I street viewed the neighborhood. There's a bunch of parks in the neighborhood. Like there's you you in street view, you can see kids playing in the parks. Like clearly people enjoy this neighborhood. I also looked up like the Zillow on it, like houses in this in this neighborhood are like people clearly want to live here from the prices they're paying.

So I said, like, you know. I don't know, it it looks like a nice neighborhood. Like it looks it looks pretty nice to me. And the thing that really set people off, as I said, it looked relatively walkable. And what I mean by that is it's like you can look up the census tract.

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