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I have no sources or data, so big grain of salt, but the dynamic as I heard it referenced was basically that Gen X developed "suburban angst" and sought out the

• ghaff 9y ago
  Five Thirty Eight has run some pieces on this. [1] It's difficult because the best data doesn't track relatively rapidly changing behavior very well. However, one conclusion seems to be that it's mostly a fairly narrow demographic (college-educated Millennials) who are "flocking" (but that's an exaggeration) to a handful of mostly coastal dense urban cores. Most of the overall urban growth from the census is, in fact, in the suburbs. My 7,000 person town where my neighbors and I split about 100 acres is considered urban by the census. [1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-millennials-are-less-urban-than-you-think/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-millennials-are-les...