Where Did All the Children Go?

The Chief noted here a few days back, some pieces on demographic changes that spell hard times for Liberalism As We Know It.

Here’s something else that seems to relate – the loss of middle-class families from the urban environment, focusing attention on San Francisco as an archetype example of what’s happening. The article ascribes this to increasing costs of housing rather than moving away for social and (anti)cultural factors, but the Chief doubts this assertion is entirely true.

Even here on the wind-swept Dakota plains there are refugees from Californicatia and other such places who have noted the high costs where they came from, but even more so noted the change in the cultural atmosphere in flyover country as opposed to the coastal blue-fringe areas of the country.

“There’s a middle-class flight on both sides of the country,” said Frey, who has analyzed county-level census data on both coasts. He has found that real estate costs more than schools are driving the migration.

HIGH SKEPTICISM ALERT ON PREVIOUS PARAGRAPH!

The trend has city officials worried about what the loss of these middle-class families will do to the vitality of their communities, and they are trying to find ways to stem the flow.

Maybe try cuttting taxes & grabbing houses with eminent domain actions to create a more family-home friendly environment, eh?