Comments by "thomas grabkowski" (@thomasgrabkowski8283) on "South Korea is dying (but it has a plan)" video.

@ArawnOfAnnwn Not to mention there are some developed countries where housing is quite affordable and government builds a lot of housing so that it remains relatively affordable for citizens such as Singapore and Austria. Yet their birth rates remain very low. Singapore in fact has the world’s second lowest birth rates after South Korea
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That said, people in poor countries have none of those and yet they have tons of kids
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Especially how they’ve only managed to raise it to a paltry 0.97, which is still less than half the replacement rate
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And that’s assuming current birth rates are constant. Unfortunately for South Korea, the current young generation entering child bearing years(Gen Z) in the country are historically disinterested in having children according to polls. Young South Koreans are also less interested in having children than any other nationality of young people
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@Moosa27 HDB flats
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It depends on what part of the US too. Like if your from San Francisco, Boston or Manhattan borough of NYC, local birth rates are closer to that of South Korea than more suburban and rural parts of the US
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Especially in a country like South Korea where every other city has amazing public transport and large percentage don’t know how to drive
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Also dense urban areas=small living spaces. Like imagine trying to raise a family with multiple kids in a 1 bedroom apartment. For many Seoul residents. This is the only kind of place they can afford
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@sanitygone-l9y higher than other developed countries where there tend to be even lower
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@weltarchiv4 Not to mention among developed countries, the most car oriented countries like US, Australia and New Zealand have higher fertility than the rest of the developed world which are more public transit oriented(with car oriented and low fertility Canada and public transit oriented but high fertility France being the exceptions)
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Brasilia does have a metro
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