Couldn’t agree more. As a no-kid citizen myself, I can tell you that others like us have already started selling, because there really doesn’t seem to be any end in sight for all of the planned spending increases (including potential tax hikes) that the City justifies by pointing to the needs of the school system, which already gets the lion’s share of our tax dollars. This is exacerbated by the gung-ho COD parents whose tunnel vision focuses on schools, schools, schools–and fails to take into account that killing the (no-kid) geese that lay the golden eggs is eventually going to catch up with the City, and what will happen then? Some of these folk may tell themselves it won’t matter, since their kids will likely have aged out of the system–but they’re wrong, because their own property values will be affected if our taxes are too high, our schools are too crowded, or both. Like you, WP, I don’t want to seem unwelcoming, by any means–but I WOULD like to see more of a concerted plan to deal with this, instead of the City’s “we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it” approach.