For most of my life I've lived in the city in a Northeast Philadelphia row house. Having grown up in one smaller than the one I eventually bought, I felt reasonably comfortable, until my wife and I had our second child. We recently moved from the city to a nearby suburb into a single house. Though we've been here but a short time, I already appreciate the significant differences
between my old city row house and new suburban home.
My row house was uncomfortably cramped for my family of two adults and two children. Though it was a three bedroom house, the rooms were quite small. My young…
