“Having a situation like we have in Sweden where you can be relaxed, things work well, it’s not wrought with class issues, you’re not paying lots of money and isolating yourself with your little group, and you don’t have to insert your children into this highly competitive system so early—once you have children, those things do matter. And there is a financial side to it as well. My friends who are academics in New York City are complaining about it. Even academics with fairly cushy salaries. They pay so much of their money for these things, and then they have to start saving for college too.
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