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 …showed first 75 words of 417 total…

…showed last 75 words of 417 total…the long and dreary winter. As for recreational land, this house sits on a half acre of it. The house sits fifty feet from a lightly traveled road, and in the rear yard already are a pool, swings, sandbox and toys enough for a daycare center. Though our city row house was cozy for me and my wife before the birth of our children, our suburban home offers a far more spacious and child-friendly environment.