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Moving somewhere less expensive might also be moving to the suburbs. Millennials seem to be very turned off to that idea, but it can significantly reduce cost o

• jordanb 10y ago
  In other words, "Drive until you qualify." This was certainly big in the 90s and 00s and still happens a great deal today but I think people have become less sanguine about it because: 1) people are more aware of the serious detriment to quality of life a long commute by car produces, 2) in many places, how far you have to drive keeps getting longer (or the roads keep getting slower), and 3) too much decentralization can close off opportunities that are theoretically in the same metropolis by pushing the commute from being arduous to being unacceptable. So the reason you moved to the metropolis (access to a large number of opportunities) evaporates as you move further to one edge.
• linkregister 10y ago
  Before we start making tons of blanket statements about millenials' turnoffs, I think we should consider that there are plenty of rational reasons to not live in the suburbs. Plenty (non-NYC/non-SFBA) metros are equally as expensive in the suburbs due to increased transportation costs. The suburbs idea is not applicable to SV/SF since most of it is suburbs to begin with. Only a small portion of San Jose is what most people would consider city. The crux of my point is that one-liner solutions don't universally solve the problem.