Millennials are flocking to America's biggest cities

dktshb · #1 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 12:39 AM**

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Business Insider
Gregory Cornfield, The Real Deal
Sep. 14, 2018, 10:00 AM

New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles are the most popular cities among young adults, according to a study by RENTCafe.com.
Two downtown Los Angeles neighborhoods are experiencing the biggest increases in the number of millennials in the country.
A Lower Manhattan ZIP code has the third-highest influx of millennials.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mill...-cities-2018-9

Top 20 zip code chart:
https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/apartm...l-strongholds/

Take from it what you will.

xzmattzx · #2 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 3:56 AM**

Breaking news from 2006?

JAYNYC · #3 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 4:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by dktshb

take from it what you will.

shocker!!!

Sun Belt · #4 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 4:19 AM**

Was there a time when 18-25 year olds didn't flock to a city?

Eightball · #5 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 4:31 AM**

Nvrmd

skyscraperpage17 · #6 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 12:25 PM**

Young people prefer to live in vibrant urban environments?

Shocked I tell ya! Just shook!

tdawg · #7 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 1:35 PM**

So apparently the default photo for Millennials now is a bunch of chicks at Coachella?

hauntedheadnc · #8 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 4:11 PM**

This kind of reminds of those breathless news stories they do on Black Friday in which some harried reporter is standing in front of a store and says, as though a cure for cancer has suddenly been found, "This just in: People are shopping at the mall! Back to you in the studio, Bill."

Which is to say, Noooo... Never woulda thought it.

eschaton · #9 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 4:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sun Belt

Was there a time when 18-25 year olds didn't flock to a city?

Just as an aside, the particular cutoff this study used for millennial was 1996, meaning no one under 22 counted. Some definitions go up to 2000, but the point is that either way, soon millennial will not include college and immediately post-college people. It can't just be shorthand for "kids these days"

Interestingly, the upper end is set at 1977, which means it includes me - and people who are up to age 41.

PhillyRising · #10 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 4:32 PM**

I wish the media would decide where millennials are going. I read in Philly.com a few weeks ago that they were now flocking to the suburbs to the cul de sacs.

skyscraperpage17 · #11 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 5:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by PhillyRising

I wish the media would decide where millennials are going. I read in Philly.com a few weeks ago that they were now flocking to the suburbs to the cul de sacs.

And soon, we'll be reading about millennials flocking to Mars once Grand Overland Musk is done building his rocket ship.

the urban politician · #12 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 5:23 PM**

I can attest to the fact that, surprise surprise, this study is quite valid.

I don't know about the other metros, but for Chicagoland the urban/suburban millennial divide is quite stark. Out in the burbs you just don't see people in their 20's--like at all, except for some immigrant groups or less educated folks.

You will see high schoolers or young parents out here, but when you are looking for young, unmarried adults, they're nowhere to be seen. Then, when I go into the city, it's like "ahhhh, that's where they all are!"

CherryCreek · #13 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 8:26 PM**

In other breaking news, DVD rentals are way down, people are starting to buy lots of things on line, and nobody goes on AOL anymore.

Boisebro · #14 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 8:30 PM**

the same study concluded that cities higher in population tend to have more people.

Obadno · #15 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 9:17 PM**

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the same study concluded that cities higher in population tend to have more people.

Yeah the study seems kind of dumb, obviously the highest population cities attract the highest population of young professionals. Its like... Water is wet, the sky is blue.

I remember a few years ago a study came out that determined more attractive people have more sex.

WOW !

Sun Belt · #16 Posted **Sep 17, 2018, 10:26 PM**

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I remember a few years ago a study came out that determined more attractive people have more sex.

WOW !

Yeah, all of this stuff is LOL'able.

But how do those experts really know? Maybe attractive people claim to have more sex than ugly people and maybe ugly people are more inclined to say it how it is, instead of pose and pretend to be a baller.

Maybe ugly people have less to prove to fit in with their less attractive peers and therefore are more truthful when the question is presented?

Maybe we need a study to determine the truthfulness of the answers given when asked these stupid questions!

iheartthed · #17 Posted **Sep 18, 2018, 1:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by eschaton

Just as an aside, the particular cutoff this study used for millennial was 1996, meaning no one under 22 counted. Some definitions go up to 2000, but the point is that either way, soon millennial will not include college and immediately post-college people. It can't just be shorthand for "kids these days"

Interestingly, the upper end is set at 1977, which means it includes me - and people who are up to age 41.

Yeah, we're getting old. My youngest sister is in college now and I would consider her post-millennial. She's not even old enough to remember dial-up modems (probably doesn't know what a modem is at all).

Obadno · #18 Posted **Sep 18, 2018, 1:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by iheartthed

Yeah, we're getting old. My youngest sister is in college now and I would consider her post-millennial. She's not even old enough to remember dial-up modems (probably doesn't know what a modem is at all).

Pew recently defined what they consider the end of millennials but there the first major firm Ive seen do so.

That 1977 definition seems rather wider than most which typically time millennial being born starting between 1980-1982 and probably ending around 1999-2001

iheartthed · #19 Posted **Sep 18, 2018, 2:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by Obadno

Pew recently defined what they consider the end of millennials but there the first major firm Ive seen do so.

That 1977 definition seems rather wider than most which typically time millennial being born starting between 1980-1982 and probably ending around 1999-2001

Yeah, we are both technically millennials (she was born in 1997 and I was born in that millennial range too

). But she's a product of the Snapchat age, whereas I signed up for Facebook when you could only join with a .edu. She was six when Facebook launched so she barely remembers life without it. When I was six AOL wasn't yet a thing.

The North One · #20 Posted **Sep 18, 2018, 2:51 AM**

You sound like you were born in the 80's

There's a bit of a difference between the older and younger "millennials", the old ones had shit like Myspace, were emo kids and had indie rock and Razr phones, have an obsession with Mean Girls and Napoleon Dynamite, whereas the younger ones (like 93+, is that even millennial?) never used Myspace, had iPhones since middle school and were in high school when Lady Gaga was huge. idk maybe I'm rambling.