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Old 01-17-2017, 12:25 PM
 
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Regional or local publications are the cheerleaders for their market, they serve, they find the most obscure statistic and blow it up.

This article from the Atlantic doesn't even show Buffalo: The 15 Most Popular Cities for Millennials (D.C. Is #1) - The Atlantic

This slide show from Forbes shows the top 25 cities guess who ain't on it: No. 1 New York, NY - pg.1

Business Insider same thing, top 25 guess who is missing: Best cities for millennials 2016 - Business Insider

There are more and none identify Buffalo, that is why I call bull on the article and what this local magazine comes up with.
Being the top and being "hot" aren't necessarily the same thing. So, that may be the issue. A place can be hot in terms of millennial growth, while not being a top place for millennials. Bigger cities are likely to get more millennials, but in terms of millennial growth, a smaller/medium sized city can have a higher percentage of growth. This post by UncleBenny kind of sums up that point: //www.city-data.com/forum/46855028-post4.html

Criteria in terms of city or metro size, time frame or the weight of what may be considered important may also play a factor as well. That 3rd article has such criteria: https://local.niche.com/rankings/cit...s/methodology/

The second article is for neighborhoods within select cities.
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Old 01-17-2017, 01:12 PM
 
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Don't make it out to be more than it is, just another regional magazine doing what its market expects. Semantics like computer generated statistics can make any point seem legitimate regardless of how absurd it seems.

The second article showed the cities and the preferred neighborhood in each...
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Old 01-17-2017, 03:19 PM
 
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Don't make it out to be more than it is, just another regional magazine doing what its market expects. Semantics like computer generated statistics can make any point seem legitimate regardless of how absurd it seems.

The second article showed the cities and the preferred neighborhood in each...
I'm not and I know what the second article does.

I'm just saying that it doesn't necessarily make any of the articles wrong, as knowing and properly interpreting the criteria is important. That's all.

Here's another take on this subject: Millennial Boomtowns: Where the Generation is Clustering (It's Not Downtown) | JAXUSA

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Old 01-17-2017, 04:27 PM
 
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Fine forget the second article here is more:

For better jobs: Millennials and Jobs: The Top 10 Places for Young Workers on the Move | Money

2014 Data top 10 for Millenials: Millennials Prefer Cities to Suburbs, Subways to Driveways

Another odd source: https://www.apartmentlist.com/renton...lation-trends/

USA Today has their list: Best U.S. cities for Millennial college students | College Choice News for College Students | USA TODAY College

The point is no one is showing Buffalo as a Millennial destination
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Old 01-17-2017, 06:53 PM
 
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The data indicates a percentage change, not absolute number... it indicates a trend from the starting point. But we all interpret stats to our own bias or otherwise poo-poo the source.
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Old 01-17-2017, 08:34 PM
 
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The data indicates a percentage change, not absolute number... it indicates a trend from the starting point. But we all interpret stats to our own bias or otherwise poo-poo the source.
Basically....This is especially the case given that the BN article is using 2011-2015 US Census information.

Even some of the other sources show growth or less of a decline in percentage in comparison, depending upon the time frame/criteria used.
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Old 01-18-2017, 05:36 AM
 
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Yes, and stating Buffalo is "hottest" is kinda ridiculous with these % change stats. These stats are only meaningful to the city, not really as a comparison to other cities (my city is better than yours).
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Old 01-18-2017, 06:18 AM
 
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Yes, and stating Buffalo is "hottest" is kinda ridiculous with these % change stats. These stats are only meaningful to the city, not really as a comparison to other cities (my city is better than yours).
It is actually for the metro area as a whole. So, the age range used, 20-34, can be due to a variety of reasons which have been mentioned(immigration, college students, some coming from out of state, some from other places within the state, some returning home, etc).

I think they were trying to compare peer, "Rust Belt" areas that may have seen an increase during that time as well.
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Old 03-21-2018, 02:07 PM
 
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Study states that Buffalo is 3rd nationally(out of the top 100 metros) in millennial homebuyers: https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/...illennial.html

Source: https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mos...al-homebuyers/
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Old 03-21-2018, 04:40 PM
 
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Its about time you guys upstate started to enjoy the liberal diversity we have been forced to live with in NYC.
Thank Shcumer and Cuomo.
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