AN: You’re ass-u-ming that the average residence for a family with 2 kids is the same in both cities, and thus are attempting to compare apples to apples. Again: floor space and number of thrones isn’t the be-all-and-end-all of housing quality. A castle in a burbclave and two foreign cars seems to be the San Diego dream, but it’s not everyone’s dream.

Oh, and my cousins grew up in Vienna (the one in Austria). Small 3/1.5 apartment, and they both turned out fine – one works for the UN, the other is a teacher in Japan.