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Also, I hoped you noted at least in the stories I've read, the people who are leaving suburbia for the city are overwhelmingly upper class, empty nesters who are generally older (60+) and retired.
perhaps you aren't clued into the millennials yet. . .
I'm thinking about "fleeing" the suburb I live in now to live in another suburb closer to the suburb I work in.
Kinda like the one couple in the news video who was moving from one suburb to another. Moving to a brand new suburban housing development, too, no less.
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And "fleeing" just sounds so much more pathetic than say, "saying farewell".
LMAO -- I have a vision of people running down the streets, suitcases in hand, while their suburban homes fold in on themselves.
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perhaps you aren't clued into the millennials yet. . .
Young adults have always wanted to live in the city. Perhaps you weren't clued into the last lines of the news report you posted, where the reporter quoted "experts" who suggested the uptick in urban living may be tied to declining birth and marriage rates.
perhaps you aren't clued into the millennials yet. . .
Who, as every story/study indicates have generally not started families yet. These same stories/studies are declining to make any prediction whatsoever on what will happen when these millenials are faced with having children go to school.
Me too, to everyone who will listen (which amounts to one standard choir :-) ). It'll be less than some previous generations, because of the lack of riots/hellish crime/white flight, but it's still going to happen.
That's why people try. It's safer than it used to be. The flip side is that city living (at least New York City living), has gotten MUCH more expensive, especially per square foot. Like it or not, kids need more square feet then non-parents (or pre-parents) think.
Then there are the school issues. The public schools in the burbs tend to be better on average. In NYC, with some notable and difficult to access exceptions, the public schools are not as good as most of the suburban districts. So when the kid needs to go to school, the parents face some difficult and expensive choices, which get much simpler if they just move to a burb with a good school system.
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Me too, to everyone who will listen (which amounts to one standard choir :-) ). It'll be less than some previous generations, because of the lack of riots/hellish crime/white flight, but it's still going to happen.
Having children is much less universal than it was years ago. I do think city life is viewed as desirable by more people than ten or twenty years ago, but, again, it's limited to specific neighborhoods, and, even then, it's not for everybody. Plenty of people still prefer the yard and the white picket fence. It seems to me that in big cities, suburbia doesn't work well. It's much too crowded and congested when everybody is fighting for their own quarter acre lot. Suburbia works better in medium sized cities.
Adams County drew a net 5,395 residents a year from other metro Denver counties between 2006 and 2010, the survey estimates. Douglas County was next, with metro net migration of 1,623 a year, followed by Arapahoe with 1,330.
At the other extreme were Boulder, which lost a net 1,336 residents a year, and Denver, which shed a net 8,946 residents a year to other metro counties.
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