Upon retirement, an old college roommate retired to upstate Vermont. Snow, it seems, is something to be vacuumed up and blown away. If only it were so easy to get started.
New demographic figures make clear what a statistical outlier Seattle is, with few families, few kids, high education, and rapid gentrification. Only San Francisco can compare.
The pattern is very strong: In Seattle you have affluent, largely single people chasing a small supply of urban housing. The result is small household size, an exodus of families to the suburbs, and...
