What is the current "It City" in the US? (to live in, professionals)
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Originally Posted by jjbradleynyc
Morgan Wallen is #1
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Unlike the others you mentioned, never heard this guy or this song until you brought it up. It doesn't play on any of the top 40 stations in San Diego, CA. It does, however, appear on the playlist of our one and only country station.
Sounds like Nickelback type music to me with a little more twang . Must be really popular in the middle of the country to be #1 but not get much radio play here in SoCal.
Unlike the others you mentioned, never heard this guy or this song until you brought it up. It doesn't play on any of the top 40 stations in San Diego, CA. It does, however, appear on the playlist of our one and only country station.
Sounds like Nickelback type music to me with a little more twang . Must be really popular in the middle of the country to be #1 but not get much radio play here in SoCal.
Your first link which does actually have a graph on wealth gaps by age historically (the second doesn't have that as it's just the overall median household without respect to age or era). In there you can see that even in the short time segment starting from 1989, there has been overall substantial widening of the gap with 1989 being the earliest year.
1989:
$27,000 median from 25-39 year old respondents
$174,000 median from 65-75 year old respondents
Difference of $147,000 6.44x
2019:
$24,000 median from 25-39 year old respondents
$269,000 median from 65-75 year old respondents
Difference of $249,000 10.38x
The difference is very substantial. No, they're actually really different. Your own link shows that. It also doesn't mention cost differences in some basic things like housing expenses and education debt load which are much worse now with younger people more likely to be in rental situations and higher education debt load which were things that the previous generations were less likely to deal with since a summer job can potentially pay for a year's worth of college tuition but which is a ridiculous prospect today for the most part. It seems odd that you are posting links so directly contradictory to what you were seeking to argue.
I think Philadelphia seems to be having a moment with the younger people. A spate of pretty popular shows and a lot of people moving there as an urban city that isn't as costly and hard to set up in as NYC. Just an all around stellar place.
I actually don't think we have an "it" city right now. The old model was one where you uprooted and physically moved to the desired "it" location. That model assumes that people have the resources to do that and therein lies the problem. The wasting away of the middleclass since the 1980s coupled with the huge college debt burden on the younger and more mobile generations has led more people to other types of fulfillments. I actually cannot think of a single place in the US that is so "cool" that everyone wants to live or visit there.
Besides being costly, cities are plagued with problems that they cannot solve on their own. Homelessness is not solvable on the city level. Cities didn't cause the problem and they can't solve it. Their efforts are ineffectual deck-chair rearrangements, moving homeless from one place to another but not gaining any improvement.
The ability to work from home has made it possible for some to live in smaller and less costly towns or suburban communities. In that smaller environment a certain level of "it" can be created. That sometimes amounts to gentrification or a commercial renaissance that creates a certain vibe. That may or may not be sustainable without at least one strong economic generator -- a university or some other stable and permanent industry or institution.
I like your way of thinking.
Manhattan has lost its sheen and cool factor. From the buzz you’d think Miami is the newest pop culture Mecca (it’s not.) that everyone is flocking to. L.A has always been a powerful entertainment hub but is it the It city? I don’t think so.
Personally I’m not investing in any individual U.S city, they all have their own strength and weakness.
Remote work does shift a lot of power re-distribution among the U.S cities.
The concept of It is very early Aughts isn’t it?
Manhattan has lost its sheen and cool factor. From the buzz you’d think Miami is the newest pop culture Mecca (it’s not.) that everyone is flocking to. L.A has always been a powerful entertainment hub but is it the It city? I don’t think so.
Personally I’m not investing in any individual U.S city, they all have their own strength and weakness.
Remote work does shift a lot of power re-distribution among the U.S cities.
The concept of It is very early Aughts isn’t it?
Maybe it's just my age, but everyone I know is moving back where they came from in their early 30s. But I also don't hear from Gen Z some overwhelming desire to live in X City.
I think Austin. Just based on how it's growing, how it's job industry has grown, the types of developments there. However, Austin has been an "it' city for some time now, but it feels more like one now more than ever.
Yeah, I agree. It's a lot of hype that can't be lived up to. I would imagine most moving there are left pretty disappointed. For having a population in the metro similar to Las Vegas, it certainly doesn't offer NEAR the same experience. And it's also in the same state as DFW and Houston.
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Must be really popular in the middle of the country to be #1 but not get much radio play here in SoCal.
