And yet I bet there are thousands of young people in Seattle having kids. These limits are all about what kind of life you want for yourself, and not about what is possible.
The parents at my kid’s daycare were in their late twenties / early thirties, had professional degrees (lawyers, physicians, tech) and only one kid in the daycare.
[edit to add this: I am talking from experience, it seems you are talking from hearsay]
I mean, living in a garbage dump is possible, millions of of people do it around the world.
The problem as a country you are doing to disappear demographically if you're choices are near suffering versus having kids.
Implied in their comment is that they don’t want to be homeless and hungry, which I think is a fair prerequisite before having children.