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7. Millenials seem to flock to urban areas where cars are less required
by acveilleux 10y ago
7. Millenials seem to flock to urban areas where cars are less required
- rocky1138 10y ago8. A constantly connected world via text/snapchat/instagram makes actually getting up and going to visit someone less of a necessity.
- ghaff 10y agoWhich seems to be an overstated trend according to a number of fivethiryeight pieces: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/think-millennials-prefer-the-city-think-again/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/think-millennials-prefer-... Other pieces I've read suggest the actual trend is more along the lines of college-educated millenials are somewhat trending toward a handful of particularly dense and favored urban neighborhoods in the US (SF, Manhattan/Brooklyn, Boston/Cambridge, Austin). What broader urbanization trends there are also include places like DFW, Phoenix, etc. that aren't really walkable or have good public transit.