Why are young people in NYC leaving in masses...to North Carolina, Fort Worth Texas, Jacksonville? (New York: low income, transplants)

[EricS39]

In mass numbers

[EricS39]

To cheaper less artsy fartsy pastures where you really don't need more than SBARRO italian eatery, Olive Garden for Italian,

[BugsyPal]

Don't know about mass numbers but yes, a good number of young adults/recent college graduates are leaving the NYC area and or NYS in general. Same for NJ and even parts of Conn. Heck it is happening in many parts of the USA.

Why? Simple cost of living in many urban areas is high and jobs especially in rural and some other areas of the USA are hard to find.

At least three of my cousins moved down South and also know children and or grandchildren of friends who are doing the same. All for the same reasons, they couldn't find work in NYC, LI or NJ, and when they did the high cost of living made their wages not go very far/they felt as if they weren't advancing.

The last bit comes from having to devote so much of their monthly income to housing and other expenses they weren't able to save anything and plan for the future. Most certainly did not see how they would be able to purchase a home some day and perhaps start a family.

[todd00]

Moving for a job, a lower cost of living, and a warmer climate, would be likely reasons for relocation. Do you have a link that gives figures regarding this mass exodus?

There are still some good mom and pop Italian restaurants around. I can't stand Olive Garden.

[NJ Brazen_3133]

Well, it is probably not the yuppy, hipster crowd that is moving then? They have great jobs and can afford the standard of living. Are you talking more about the working class kids without connections?

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by todd00

Moving for a job, a lower cost of living, and a warmer climate, would be likely reasons for relocation. Do you have a link that gives figures regarding this mass exodus?

There are still some good mom and pop Italian restaurants around. I can't stand Olive Garden.

May not be mass but: New York May Bid Farewell to 36% of Young Residents | Home of the Marist Poll: Pebbles and Pundits

There are other studies out there as well.

Yes, Olive Garden is to real Italian like Red Lobster is to good sea food.

[mesa1974]

I'm thinking about it as well. I hate living here now.

[BugsyPal]

My cousin found a job in GA in less than one moth of arriving. He is paying less to rent a whole house than a small crappy studio in Brooklyn.

[Bronxguyanese]

NYC has a lack of job growth compared to other regions of the country like the south or the American South West. Most of NYC job growth is within low income range and limited to professional fields that pay a lot but one has to know some one through alumni or have an amazing college degree from Yale or Dartmouth. Some years ago someone sent me a link saying that NYC has lost much of its native educated workforce who moved down South. But again those educated natives most likely went to regional schools and not to a big name college like the majority of yuppies who move to NYC after college. I actually know a woman who is from NC and she worked at Bank of America, at her office most of her colleagues were from NYC and she could not relate to none of them. But now she works here in NYC and her office, most of the colleagues are not from NYC and she can relate to them. To think of it plenty of young people who are college educated want to leave home.

[nybbler]

They're filling in the holes left behind by the transplants coming TO NYC from those locations.