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I’ve written about why I love raising my kids in the city and on an island, but before having kids I always thought I would raise my kids in the suburbs. I’ve mostly lived in cities, but I also lived in the suburbs for almost 10 years in my late teens and early twenties. The […]

Last spring when we found out we were going to have two new additions to our family, we immediately put our city home on the market in order to seek out extra space in the suburbs. At the time it didn’t feel like a difficult decision because we were so overwhelmed and overloaded at the […]

Mrs. Bee’s recent post about city living really got me thinking about the reasons why I love suburbia. As fun as city life is, I really can’t imagine living anywhere but the suburbs! Looks like I’m not alone either, as studies have found that the percentage of people who long to live in the suburbs […]

It’s been almost 3 1/2 years since I wrote this post debating whether to raise kids in the city vs. the suburbs, because I’ve always felt like I was a suburb mouse at heart. But now that I’ve been living in the city with two kids for 5 1/2 years, I’m firmly on team city for now. You can […]

I grew up in the suburbs of a mid-sized Midwestern city where suburban life was the norm. Big fenced back yards, finished basements where I could hang out with my friends, a home large enough for a bedroom for each kid with one to spare. After college, Mr. Confetti and I moved to Chicago (before […]