Depends on the restrictions. Not being allowed to cast a shadow on the neighbor’s zucchini garden or having to pay off permit expediters has no impact on building quality, mandating wood vs cardboard does.

It's relatively common for similar behavior on the margin; people avoid sending their kids to the super competitive high schools for a combination of competitiveness/mental health/standing-out-to-colleges reasons

Indeed. If the level of instruction between neighboring school districts is the same but one is super competitive and the other is not, I really don't see why you'd decide to buy a house in the the more competitive one. What good does it do? And that's not even taking into account the fact that kids from a weaker school might actually have better chances during admission.

I think the general sense is that being around other high-performing students would be motivating and enjoyable. But if there is a significant tradeoff in terms of admissions, I think some parents will lean in the other direction.

There were plenty of high-performing students around her and she and many of her friends got accepted at top colleges.

I'm in a similar situation. Partially have self-serving hope, but agreed that the game is starting to shift. The goal is now to buy enough time with the current drug you can move to the next version. So if you get 3 years from the drug and new ones come out every 2, you might get to die of something else.

Also aggregated death rates will always lag if treatments are improving.

Yep, its all about staying ahead of the curve

It's been taken down of course, but I will deeply miss their Warm Cookie Radar. It wasn't technically sophisticated or anything but brought me and my colleagues a lot of joy