Good point, bestwifeever, her activities certainly introduce here to a broader group of backgrounds and there are a decent number of scholarship kids (wish ours was one, haha!) But, I agree, suburbs are out of the question for us. Before we moved here, we had never experienced what a walking lifestyle was. Now that we've had it for 5 years, we can't imagine going back to suburban driving. Our first year in Chicago we put 600 miles on our car! Our whole family agrees that the ability to walk to parks, restaurants, museums, the lake, the zoo, all of that far outweighs any negative to city living. Oh, and the fact that I can walk a half a block to the local watering hole (or 3) any time DW wants to watch Real Housewives of ..... certainly helps!