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Other than a few hipster heavens, you can basically go down the list of largest metros, shuffle a few here or there with the hipster cities, and out pops the top 10.
Whaaaaat?!? You mean NASHVILLE---the city that patterns itself after Austin and gets boosted nonstop on City-Data as a cool, exciting, hipster haven---is nowhere on any of the lists for hot cities for millennials?!?!?!?!?!
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Whaaaaat?!? You mean NASHVILLE---the city that patterns itself after Austin and gets boosted nonstop on City-Data as a cool, exciting, hipster haven---is nowhere on any of the lists for hot cities for millenials?!?!?!?!?!
It's also getting prohibitively expensive on local wages.
I am still amazed that Austin is so popular, and that Philly is apparently not very popular.
Austin is fine, but nothing special. Philly, if you like urban-style cities, is probably Top 5 in the U.S. Even if you don't care about urbanity, it's a clear Top 10. Austin I wouldn't put in my Top 30, I don't think.
Have been there a bunch of times, and it seems pretty quiet, sprawly, and generic. Nothing really "bad" but don't understand the appeal. I would never even consider moving there unless there were family reasons to be there.
It's also getting prohibitively expensive on local wages.
But many of the other cities on the list---like San Francisco and New York---are WAY more expensive than Nashville, and that doesn't stop them from being popular millennial destinations.
When it comes to so-called millennials and the cities that they think are hot, money is usually not an object anyway, because a lot of these cities and their neighborhoods are specifically geared toward and marketed as giant fun places for young professionals who either have 6 figure salaries or who have unlimted access to their well off mommy and daddy's money. Heck, they are the ones who have caused the cost of living to rise in cities like Nashville and Austin in the first place, so I don't think cost of living is the issue here. Especially when, like I said, you have cities like San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle rounding out the top 10.
Have been there a bunch of times, and it seems pretty quiet, sprawly, and generic. Nothing really "bad" but don't understand the appeal. I would never even consider moving there unless there were family reasons to be there.
Agreed, I have visited several times and I don't get the appeal. Maybe my expectations were too high. It's bar area feels like a typical college town. Beyond SXSW there really isn't anything special going on there. I guess they just have a good PR team.
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