{"id":83285,"date":"2019-07-02T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83285"},"modified":"2019-07-02T06:07:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T10:07:21","slug":"wsj-american-suburbs-swell-again-as-a-new-generation-escapes-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83285","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) American Suburbs Swell Again as a New Generation Escapes the City"},"content":{"rendered":"

APEX, N.C.\u2014This Raleigh, N.C., suburb was declared the best place to live in America by a national magazine in 2015, around the time Lindsay and Terry Mahaffey were drawn by its schools, affordable housing and quaint downtown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The couple found a sprawling five-bedroom house next to a horse farm for $782,000, half the cost they would have paid in the Seattle suburb they left behind.<\/p>\n

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Many other families had the same idea. Apex, nicknamed the Millennial Mayberry, is the fastest-growing suburb in the U.S., according to Realtor.com<\/a>, and the town is struggling to keep pace with all the newcomers.<\/p>\n

When Mr. and Mrs. Mahaffey took their eldest daughter for the first day of kindergarten, school officials told them they didn\u2019t have a seat. Too many kids, they said. On weekends, the family thinks twice about going downtown\u2014not enough parking. And the horse farm next door was sold for a subdivision.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Younger families are moving to the suburbs again. \u201cThe back-to-the-city trend has reversed.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/xZPqbOxH5F<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n