Why Generation Y Is Causing The Great Migration Of The 21st Century
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Why Generation Y Is Causing The Great Migration Of The 21st Century
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#2Article describes me to a T. Grew up in the suburbs of DC, and after having moved to progressively bigger cities over the last 10 years (Atlanta, Chicago, and soon New York), I can't imagine ever again living in a place where finding you're out of contact lens solution involves a 45 minute car trip to the nearest CVS.
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#4I absolutely fall into this category. Grew up in suburbs of LA, San Francisco, Houston and the outskirts of Cheyenne, WY. Now I'm about to move into the Montrose area of Houston.
I hate driving and now I'll be taking metro rail to downtown and I'll be close to great restaurants, grocery stores and cafes. Even if I do need to drive, I'll be smack in the middle of what I consider the "good" parts of Houston so I won't have far to go nor will I need to bother with highways too often.
Okay, so Houston isn't a paradise of car-independence but I think the Montrose, Washington Heights and Rice Village areas of Houston definitely fit this article well.
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#5There's plenty of truth in that article, but I can't help but think that this trend is almost purely a product of demographic changes. People wait longer to get married and have children, so there way more 25-30 year olds who worry more about living within walking distance to a bar and less about a backyard and a nice school.
Many of the urban Gen Y the article talks about will move back to the suburbs when they have children.
A 1-2 bedroom apartment is fine for 2 people, but apartment living gets rather cramped when you have 4 or 5 people living there.
Atlanta Public schools are pretty horrible, I can't imagine many of my friends who currently live in the city staying there when they have kids who are school age.
Additionally the rise of the self driving car is going to completely torpedo 90% of the advantages of living in a city.
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#6There's plenty of truth in that article, but I can't help but think that this trend is almost purely a product of demographic changes. People wait longer to get married and have children, so there way more 25-30 year olds who worry more about living within walking distance to a bar and less about a backyard and a nice school. Many of the urban Gen Y the article talks about will move back to the suburbs when they have…
I agree. As an "underdeveloped" (ie no impending plans to escape to the suburbs with a newly betrothed spouse) 22 year old I have no desire to be in the suburbs because they seem boring and lack the nightlife and women that currently interest me.
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#7There's plenty of truth in that article, but I can't help but think that this trend is almost purely a product of demographic changes. People wait longer to get married and have children, so there way more 25-30 year olds who worry more about living within walking distance to a bar and less about a backyard and a nice school. Many of the urban Gen Y the article talks about will move back to the suburbs when they have…
The self-driving car will still need energy to run. Suburbs are built on the principle that energy is cheap. That is no longer the case.
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#8I absolutely fall into this category. Grew up in suburbs of LA, San Francisco, Houston and the outskirts of Cheyenne, WY. Now I'm about to move into the Montrose area of Houston. I hate driving and now I'll be taking metro rail to downtown and I'll be close to great restaurants, grocery stores and cafes. Even if I do need to drive, I'll be smack in the middle of what I consider the "good" parts of Houston so I won't…
I dream of a post-car America. But wouldn't that require places like Houston to build massive amounts of public transport?
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#9There's plenty of truth in that article, but I can't help but think that this trend is almost purely a product of demographic changes. People wait longer to get married and have children, so there way more 25-30 year olds who worry more about living within walking distance to a bar and less about a backyard and a nice school. Many of the urban Gen Y the article talks about will move back to the suburbs when they have…
>Atlanta Public schools are pretty horrible
What do you mean? APS mostly gets issues with disparity of performance (aka, the children of the rich people far outperform the children of everyone else).
Sure, there are bad ones. But don't live there:
http://www.atlantapublicschools.us/site/default.aspx?PageTyp...
This explains why you may think the schools are bad: http://midtown.patch.com/articles/grady-high-school-one-step...
RE Grady (and others): "Focus schools are either for graduation rates lower than 60% or achievement gaps in achievement or graduation rate between the highest performing subgroup and the lowest performing subgroup. They are on it because of the gap on graduation rate between their highest subgroup and their lowest subgroup."
Basically, lots of child performance in school is based on who your parents are, not what your school does.
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#10Article describes me to a T. Grew up in the suburbs of DC, and after having moved to progressively bigger cities over the last 10 years (Atlanta, Chicago, and soon New York), I can't imagine ever again living in a place where finding you're out of contact lens solution involves a 45 minute car trip to the nearest CVS.
Having lived in suburban communities all of my life, I have never lived further than 10 minutes away from a CVS type of store. Perhaps your experience is more rural than suburban?