This was always a bit of an older community (by internet standards) but looking back at its founding it was directionally accurate even here. Look at the amount of posts from people early in their career, and they've been here for some 10 years. You were at fairly good odds of talking to a teenager.
Furthermore I'd argue that the claims of the self-righteous immature person with infinite free time is even more true for the median college attendee than the median highschooler.
It really depends on the program/major. Its pretty easy to figure out which is which by looking at how much time students spend studying every week.
Only engineering and medicine reach 40h a week, with the median for other programs being less than 10h including lessons.
Law school is somewhere in-between with people putting in some 18h a week on average, although my understanding is that top students spend in excess of 40h a week and if you just want to pass you can spend far less.
Its a bit funny when you read about some "elite" school where people apparently only spend 12h a week on school, with the implicit understanding that the students are expected to do full time internships concurrently with the education. The purpose of the education itself is just providing a really barebones foundation and act as a competence filter for internships.
They seem to ignore the point that the inconvenience of suburban living is not a bug but rather a feature. That kinda the point is to keep out, well, riff-raff for lack of a better word.
Plenty of urban environments do this as well. To the extent American cities aren't doing this is a *choice*.
There are plenty of other reasons to prefer urban, suburban or rural living but keeping away the riffraff isn't an inherent issue for any of them. Just like many of the "urbanist" complaints about soulless suburbs aren't inherent problems with suburbs just things that are most notable in some American suburbs.
Yeah 500k CAD is cheap unless one is living in a complete shithole. It wasn't expensive even a decade ago...
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