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In theory I could have “moved to the suburbs” and chosen Arizona over LA, but I spent a year watching the job market in Phoenix for law clerks and it was terrifying. It’s not clear to me that I would have had a better chance there, and failure would have hurt worse.
At least in LA/SF/etc. there's always a shot that something shakes loose for you or your partner, and you become one of the lucky ones who can make a family work the way we all always assumed we could if we wanted to. It's mostly a fiction, but it lets us keep going
That’s another part of it. The need for two incomes to raise a child means there’s a stronger emphasis on two upwardly mobile spouses. A marriage like my parents (lawyer/no-college career activist) is borderline impossible today. And the dating market comes to emphasize “market.”
We all wind up herded together, desperately eyeing each other for serviceable prospects in an increasingly neo-Victorian way, hoping to find someone early enough, or marry up enough, to either flee somewhere else or carve just enough space where we are. Most will fail at that.
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