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Why would they though? Covid just forced the development of technologies even further to make working from home even more viable than before. Millennials follo

Why would they though? Covid just forced the development of technologies even further to make working from home even more viable than before. Millennials followed the boomers right into the suburbs as they got older and that was before there was a path to killing the commute. When Gen Z can get by without a commute and live in social media, where is their push for cities going to come from?

ghaff 4y ago
A lot of what we consider "elite" US cities were losing population well into the 1990s. While I don't think the WFH trend is as widespread as people in some bubbles think it is, it's probably an open question whether the latest young college-educated cohort will move into cities for a while like some of their predecessors did.
- vanilla_nut 4y ago
  Young people want things to do. I'm right on the divide between Millenials and Gen Z (the MillenialZ generation, if you'll forgive my poor portmanteau skills) and many college students I knew during covid have done one of the following: - secured a remote job and settled down in their college city - as a remote worker, followed a significant other or close friend to a city where they have to work in person - found a hybrid role that allows some in-person work in a city I think the "work remotely, from your college city" trend is a positive one. I attended college in a small city with a serious brain drain problem (aside from medical folks) and it's nice to see more and more classmates move back to that city as the brain drain reverses.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    Fair enough. Certainly the fact that I would have needed to commute to a job that was an hour outside the nearest major city (where I went undergrad) influenced the fact that I just went to live near my office when I graduated grad school. It was mostly the same with my classmates who also worked way out in the burbs/exurbs. If the commute weren't a factor, I'd probably have at least considered living in the city--at least while I was still renting. (Of course, urban prices weren't nearly as relatively high as they are today.)

ghaff 4y ago

A lot of what we consider "elite" US cities were losing population well into the 1990s. While I don't think the WFH trend is as widespread as people in some bubbles think it is, it's probably an open question whether the latest young college-educated cohort will move into cities for a while like some of their predecessors did.

vanilla_nut 4y ago
Young people want things to do. I'm right on the divide between Millenials and Gen Z (the MillenialZ generation, if you'll forgive my poor portmanteau skills) and many college students I knew during covid have done one of the following: - secured a remote job and settled down in their college city - as a remote worker, followed a significant other or close friend to a city where they have to work in person - found a hybrid role that allows some in-person work in a city I think the "work remotely, from your college city" trend is a positive one. I attended college in a small city with a serious brain drain problem (aside from medical folks) and it's nice to see more and more classmates move back to that city as the brain drain reverses.
- ghaff 4y ago
  Fair enough. Certainly the fact that I would have needed to commute to a job that was an hour outside the nearest major city (where I went undergrad) influenced the fact that I just went to live near my office when I graduated grad school. It was mostly the same with my classmates who also worked way out in the burbs/exurbs. If the commute weren't a factor, I'd probably have at least considered living in the city--at least while I was still renting. (Of course, urban prices weren't nearly as relatively high as they are today.)