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I think there's reason to believe that within a generation, moving to the suburbs may not be the choice of those who are white and wealthy or upper/middle class.
Moving to the suburbs has not been the preference for much of the white, liberal, wealthy, upper middle class for a long time now. By and large, those people have always concentrated in leafy "outer" city and inner-ring suburban neighborhoods (i.e., Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Forest Hills in Queens, Bethesda, Maryland, Bryn Mawr, PA, etc.). That's not new. What's new is an army of Generation Y'ers armed with trust funds, access to their parents' credit cards, or six figure salaries (sometimes all three!) moving into previously undesirable neighborhoods.
Because the inner cities populations are up to 1/10 the populaions of Suburbs, so if a city (like Atlanta) gains 10,000, and the Suburbs gain 110,000, Atlanta grew "faster".
If the red dots are supposed to represent places with a lot of exurban growth...it doesn't look like there is all that much! And the red dots on the map I am familiar with are mostly poster children for the victims of the collapse of the housing market, and cities on the verge of bankruptcy (or in bankruptcy proceedings.) So while these may have been the areas of big recent growth, that growth has apparently not been healthy for those municipalities.
I'm suspicious of this chart mainly because it has non-0% dots in areas which don't have exurbs. Northeastern and Southwestern New Jersey, seriously? And it shows Baltimore as 0 when I know there's been a lot of growth around and north of the Susquehanna.
I'm suspicious of this chart mainly because it has non-0% dots in areas which don't have exurbs. Northeastern and Southwestern New Jersey, seriously? And it shows Baltimore as 0 when I know there's been a lot of growth around and north of the Susquehanna.
I think the dots are on the center city of each metro, rather than placing a dot on each exurb of a metro (which would be confusing).
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