Wow, a couple in Seattle is going to raise their kids downtown.
These people are trailblazers. When my 4-year-old niece comes to visit and we run errands around Queen Anne, boy do I get looks. The looks say: "Excuse me, what is a kid doing here?"
I presume that's because there are no 4-year-olds in Queen Anne. I see kids on school playgrounds, but each day they disappear into thin air. Other than that, it's just quiet tots in jogging strollers.
I feel like I'd better move back to the suburbs if I'm going to have kids and not be shunned. The suburbs are built for kids. The homes going up around my dad's house in Covington -- you couldn't fill the space unless you had four of them.
But that's not us. We bike to work; we have one car. We like Malena's better than Azteca. We like walking to the movie theater or the park. Of course you'd want to share that with your kids.
So a few cheers for this brave family, the Thornhills. They might help save these children from disappearing.
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