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Millennials are over the inner-city lifestyle and are sick of paying rents higher than mortgage payments. Seeing their cities destroyed and become more dangerou
by jb775 6y ago
Millennials are over the inner-city lifestyle and are sick of paying rents higher than mortgage payments. Seeing their cities destroyed and become more dangerous over the past few months was the straw that broke the camels back. I predict most large cities will get worse over the next 10 years as businesses follow the millennials to the suburbs.
- shahbaby 6y agoWhy is this downvoted? I'm guessing it's "that's not my experience so it must be wrong."
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThe source article is about a month-over-month increase in home construction. Speculation about how much millennials hate the "inner-city lifestyle" or how bad cities will get over the next decade seems both inflammatory and off topic.
- theduder99 6y agocorrect, the only reason people live near major urban centers is jobs. everything else about those areas is terrible for families, taxes, quality of life, space, traffic, schools, pollution, etc..I could go on forever. Now that WFH culture has taken over, there is no reason to live in a big city. young kids straight out of high school/college may still start out in a big city but once it is time to start a family they'll move out.
- zeku 6y agoSure I can see this, another thing is that cities suck in America. Just take a vacation to Europe and just wake up and go get a coffee and live your life getting around the city. Take the bus there and then come back to almost all major US metros and try to take the bus. European cities also feel much much safer, probably because the bottom 10% of their population in terms of income have simple access to some kind of safety net. We only have a small handful of cities in the country that can even compare to this on any level. That's why young people would leave cities, because the cities aren't built for living in.
- refurb 6y agoNYC is one of those US cities where you can do this and people are leaving in droves. Your hypothesis doesn’t hold up.
- throw51319 6y agoYup. I was already very much leaning towards that (much more than the average millenial). Esp in NYC. At least until next April/May, why would you want to pay $2k/month for a shoebox room that you work remote from. Ridiculous.
- Nelkins 6y agoHey, 2k, that's a pretty good deal! :)
- throw51319 6y agoHeh, actually it was 1750 but in a 3bd/1ba. Pretty solid right in Murray Hill and nice.