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One of my biggest gripes with non-NYC US cities is walkability 

It’s important to me because when you walk, or use public transportation, you see people you see their faces you have empathy. 

When you’re in a car you don’t see peoples faces, you mostly see only people that you choose to see.

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NY is great that way. SF is quite walkable too, just small (ya, there’s bad areas etc).

I’m in Tokyo now and had the same thought seeing faces and people all day. The big diff here vs NY is families use public transit more. I see tons of kids, hard to believe there’s a birth crisis here.

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Agree with you @jtgi 

Re: The birth crisis - it is not happening in Tokyo, it’s happening everywhere outside of Tokyo because everyone that’s over 20 is moving to Tokyo, or other large cities in their vicinity

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I don’t think this is unique just to Japan - in general, cities have done that to us; not to want to have kids, or at least be significantly less interested in having kids

And who can you blame - lack of space, lack of parental or community support, loss of career progression - hard not to see why that is the case

It’s one of the larger tragedies of Japan is that many of the outside communities are growing smaller and smaller as the youth/young leave to pursue careers in the big city. Once arriving in these major metropolitan areas there is less of a desire to pursue having children due to cultural/governmental factors.