I've thought for years that the Upper Midwest would be a future hotspot. Around 1999-2000, I had the sense that Manhattan would grow very strong during the 2000

I've thought for years that the Upper Midwest would be a future hotspot. Around 1999-2000, I had the sense that Manhattan would grow very strong during the 2000s, which it did, and that Chicago/Twin Cities would come up during the 2010s in a major way, which seems likely. One important demographic trend is that, even though people may be marrying later, they seem to be forming long-term, serious relationships earlier-- often in mid-college. This means that people are actually less mobile/nomadic than they were in the past two decades, and so you're not going to see the bulk of the talent gravitating to 3 or 4 coastal cities; you'll see it gravitating toward 10 or 20 more well-distributed cities.