Millennials discover mid-level cities
It doesn’t surprise me.
I never wanted to live in New York, although I grew up there and most of the people I knew wanted to stay there the rest of their lives—and have done so.
Not me. I always felt overwhelmed by Manhattan. Not in the sense that I couldn’t find my way around (I could); it was the vastness of it and in particular the crush of people and the idea of trying to claw my way up towards the top of a very huge and simultaneously-clawing heap.
I loved the Broadway theater (back then; not so much now) and the dance and all the other cultural choices possible. But I knew it wasn’t going to be the place I’d be staying as an adult.
These days, with home and apartment prices having skyrocketed, I can understand why more and more young people have decided that first-tier cities with enormously expensive real estate markets are not where they’re going to settle and raise a family.
Enter, places like Indianapolis and Louisville:
After a decade of investment in parks and greenspace, homegrown tech hubs, and downtown redevelopment, many small and mid-size metros are seeing more signs of life and increased migration, according to a recent Brookings Institution analysis of U.S. Census data. This comes at a time when larger superstar cities are seeing slower population growth and an uptick in domestic out-migration.
Cities such as Madison, Wisconsin, and Indianapolis, Indiana, have thrived due to the growing tech scenes, including headquarters for large companies such as Epic and Salesforce, respectively, as well as investments in public infrastructure, such as the Indianapolis Cultural Trail and Madison-area bike trails. Silicon Valley investors see possibility in the Midwest. AOL founder Steve Case’s Revolution’s Rise of the Rest seed fund plans to invest $150 million in new companies in the region, especially in sectors such as health care, agriculture, transportation, finance, and manufacturing.
Louisville has made similar strides in recent years, investing millions of dollars in an expansion of its Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park system, adding a new convention center and a pair of hotels to the recently coined NuLu neighborhood, and building new apartments downtown. Mayor Greg Fischer brags about $12.5 billion in economic development in the region.
It’s happening to smaller cities, too. One of the problems with it all, though, which the article doesn’t mention, is that as smaller cities or large towns become more gentrified (which is actually what the article is describing), the lower economic tier of the population starts having to leave for less-discovered towns.
I’ve seen it happen many times in New England. A sleepy town with lots of housing and economic variety gets discovered and heats up in terms of the housing market, and the rise and then the exodus begins.
Neo: You have an incorrect link to the passage you’ve quoted. Takes us to a Google search that’s relevant to an earlier blog post of yours.
Also, I suspect this is an under-reported trend because it runs counter to what Progressives want to read (or write).
Joel Kotkin is an exception. Here’s an example entitled “The Midwest is booming — just not where you think.”
(https://tinyurl.com/yb27bcny)
Of course they will also bring with them the seeds of destruction with their “liberal” politics.
Cornflour:
Thanks, will fix
Wait until they discover online work from home.
My daughter and son in law are millennials and a month ago she shared with me that they are increasingly disenchanted with living in Denver. They moved there 7 years ago from California and she says that traffic on the single major N-S freeway is much more crowded today and that people are noticeably ruder.
I remember reading an article 30-40 yrs ago, where scientists had discovered that the more crowded the conditions that rats were subjected to, the greater the friction between them. The authors speculated that the same dynamic applied to human beings.
Son, daughter-in-law, and their two girls live in suburban Portland ME. Housing is affordable, lots of activities and things to do nearby, not so many people that it feels at all crowded. Time will tell – I suspect the weather from November through March is a built in governor – but it is a very nice place to live right now.
steve walsh:
A long winter in Portland Maine, and a dark one. In winter the sun rises around 7 and sets around 4, and while not exactly the North Pole, that’s pretty dark. It’s also a rather small city, not a mid-sized one—actually more of a large town. That said, it has beautiful scenery and great restaurants. But the housing, although affordable by NY and California standards, is a bit pricey. Median rents are around 2K (see this) and the median house price right now is 298K. In Indianapolis it’s 150K,, half the price of Portland’s. Louisville Kentucky is similar to Indianapolis.
Geoffrey Britain Says:
May 5th, 2018 at 5:28 pm
My daughter and son in law are millennials and a month ago she shared with me that they are increasingly disenchanted with living in Denver. They moved there 7 years ago from California and she says that traffic on the single major N-S freeway is much more crowded today and that people are noticeably ruder.
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That’s because of all the people coming here from California.
Businesses are figuring out the need to leave the Metropolitan Megalopolises. (via PLB)
https://www.city-journal.org/html/escape-new-york-15886.html
If given the right opportunity I would seriously seriously moving to NOLA since that’s the “only” city I’d consider moving to where I’m currently.
I wish the following people would stay away:
1. Millennials,
2. New Yorkers,
3. New York millennials.
Regards,
Red States
The Internet has reduced the accessibility difference between large populations and small populations. Consider shopping. If you want to buy something, there is much less need these days to drive to the big city to get it. Amazon et al.
Consider access to information- first shopping for it. Back in the day, I would go to NYC to browse in and purchase from its plethora of used book stores. When my cousin, who has lived decades on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, recently visited me, my sighting a Half Price Books store led me to suggest that we visit it. My cousin’s reply surprised me. As there were so few bookstores left in Manhattan, she told me, a visit to Half Price Books was worth the time. She purchased several books there.
Nowadays, my guess is that Strand Book Store is one of the few used book stores left standing in Manhattan. There used to be dozens.
Today you can obtain hard copy or digital copies of books from the Internet. No need to drive to the big city to get them.
Books aside, the amount of information currently available on the Internet means that people living in places with lower population have much the same access to information that was previously available only in libraries in big cities or university towns.
We have already seen the political effects of Yankees moving to Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. Tennessee and Texas may be next. The migrants keep voting Democrat and want more government services and more taxes.
Mr. Frank Says:
May 6th, 2018 at 5:44 pm
We have already seen the political effects of Yankees moving to Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. Tennessee and Texas may be next. The migrants keep voting Democrat and want more government services and more taxes.
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Which is only to reinforce the suspicion that “liberals” are indeed clueless.
They simply cannot fathom cause and effect.
A month or two ago there was an article on the cost of a 1-way U-Haul rentals between cities. Going from the greater NYC area to Columbus OH was about double the cost of the opposite trip. Apparently they have to hire drivers to move the vehicles that pile up in Columbus and drive them back to NYC.
Books aside, the amount of information currently available on the Internet means that people living in places with lower population have much the same access to information that was previously available only in libraries in big cities or university towns.
Makes my research as a mad scientist a lot easier. A lot of primary sources and texts are being digitized. If one needs to retranslate the original language, photo copies also exist.
The Dead Sea Scrolls were prevented from being given to the general public for 4 decades. Only photographic reproductions were needed. It started opening up in 1990s and that is why we know now that 1st Enoch is authentic for second temple period scholarship.
There are also all kinds of intentional errors and corruptions put into the modern source text for the Bible, which is the Masoretic Text that was used for much of the translation of the King James version. People were told before that the New Testament had contradictions and disputes concerning who wrote what.
What they failed to realize is that the same applies to the MT.
“The Dead Sea Scrolls were prevented from being given to the general public for 4 decades.”
Some of them are being exhibited in Denver this summer – I am anxious to get a look at how the explanations will be curated.
Part of the recent work in Old Testament history second temple period Judea and in the New Testament, has been accelerated in recent decades due to the new blood scholars like Michael S Heiser (popular with many BYU scholars because Heiser’s Divine Counsel plurality is consistent with LDS scriptural doctrines) and also accelerated by the internet. But really, it is also because the Caves of Qumran fragments are still being investigated, researched, and translated, now that it has gotten out of whatever box the owners have kept it in.
Letting “Egyptologists” and only specific scholars study certain things, reminds me of Enron and Madoff only allowing certain people to check their books because they were cooking their books for auditing purposes.
There are things in the Great Pyramid of Giza that they don’t let people investigate either. Not even with bribes. (Oh people have tried)
Instead of having 50+ years of Qumran research in the general scholarly body, we only started from like the 1990s. Somebody trying to keep knowledge from increasing in the last days probably.
It wasn’t just me but others who had spiritual insights that finding the Dead Sea Scroll stuff in the 1950s was very important.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Dead_Sea_Scrolls
Back when I looked for info in the 2005 ish, the wiki articles were like 2-4 paragraphs long. They didn’t mention much of anything except that the fragments supported the Biblical wording in MT. That wasn’t what I was looking for because that wasn’t what I had felt was the import here.
The import is that somebody stashed the back up there because what we have now has been corrupted. Back up your DATA, people.
They are still translating them. They need to hurry up because somebody will probably destroy a few scrolls in the next ME war. But there might be another BACKUP somebody dig up that was a metal book….
Back up your DATA gods. I don’t know how many times I have had to tell them that. They probably planning to dribble it out to us just like a Veritas O Keefe project: sighs.
Nag Hamadi was also interesting, but hard to reconcile with the historical narratives at the time. The Gnostic Gospels seem to be closer to magecraft and Egyptian sorcery than to what the Hebrew Kabbalah and Divine Counsel stuff was about. The entire cosmology is also different. It is hard to place them except as adulterated creations of a lost sect.
We can blame the Vatican and the Orthodox boys for that problem too, as they killed off so many Albigensian Cathars and Bogomilists that nobody is alive now to tell us what the Gnostics actually believed in. Stop killing off witnesses in churches created by Jesus’ Apostle lines. I need to interview them and I don’t trust the State to do it after they already killed em off.
During a portion of the conflict during the 1956 war waged by Israel, Britain and France against Egypt, the scrolls collection of the Palestine Archaeological Museum was stored in the vault of the Ottoman Bank in Amman, Jordan.[69] Damp conditions from temporary storage of the scrolls in the Ottoman Bank vault from 1956 to the Spring of 1957 led to a more rapid rate of deterioration of the scrolls. The conditions caused mildew to develop on the scrolls and fragments, and some of the fragments were partially destroyed or made illegible by the glue and paper of the manila envelopes in which they were stored while in the vault.[69] By 1958 it was noted that up to 5% of some of the scrolls had completely deteriorated.[66] Many of the texts had become illegible and many of the parchments had darkened considerably.
Easiest way to not get found out faking things is to destroy the originals, Right State and IRS?
Reading the human treatment of these ancient texts is ridiculous. It’s like cavemen finding a USB solid state thumb drive and trying to jam it into the orifices of a 2018 Laptop and smartphone set.
These people had no idea what they were dealing with. They just knew it was expensive.