More On Urbanism and Natalism

"Cities depress fertility" is not a metaphysical truth

I was reading an article on Japan that popped up in my feed, and one of the comments was this:

This is one of those very popular and widely held quasi-truths that comes up, especially online, in discussions of cities, density, and families. I’ve written about these things before, and this idea that cities are somehow inherently bad for families or depres…