Possible?: More millenials want liveable neighbourhoods, more transit, etc.

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Would agree that having a community centre and park within 5-10 min. walking distance is helpful for any type of housing.

In downtown Vancouver among highrise condos by the waterfront...they are BUILDING 2 new elementary schools (kindergarten to grade 6) because there are alot of families living in this area. When you think about that, it's incredible. 1 of the schools is in the Olympic Village area. So families with some money, are choosing to live closer to or in the core of Vancouver. Some of this housing is a blend of high-rise, low-rise and townhouses.

And these are more expensive places. There's lots of green lovely space, bike-pedestrian paths, market is close and Stanley Park is a few km. away.

It wouldn't be surprising that the culture of Singapore is such that children do play, but more of a tendency to get kids to study, study...which isn't totally healthy either.

I'm only saying this because in Vancouver there are many ESL schools for adults, older teens, many recently or directly from Asia, who are there because some have parents who are pushing them there to ramp on their grades ...to enter into university. (Also dearie's daughter has worked for several of these schools in Vancouver. I hear about the situation from her....)

It depends what one is used to. It doesn't interest me to be in a 2-3 bedroom single family dwelling out in the 'burbs. I don't have children. Makes no sense to isolate myself. Dearie had his taste of surburbs before he married and had children. He and his ex chose to live in a home in downtown Toronto not far from transit. There are some decent neighbourhoods in Toronto close to the subway. I know, I used to live there and still have family scattered across the city....all close to transit for their homes.