Thanks housing market! Here's a headline from today's New York Observer:
The Graying of the City: Young Families Fleeing New York
"It’s not even a question of, they can’t afford what they want,” Mr. Kotkin, a Brooklyn native who lives in Los Angeles, said of younger New Yorkers today. “When it becomes a situation of, instead of an apartment in Manhattan, you’re paying a lot for an apartment a 40-minute subway ride to Manhattan, you start to think, ‘Is this worth it?’
More young New Yorkers are shouting, “No!”
Maybe they just need a good weekend away from the city...