Dowell Myers, professor of demography at the University of Southern California, first suggested in 2015 that cities would begin to see declines in millennials.Time also finds that Los Angeles and Chicago have become net losers. Likely this is a pattern that is more typical than not for large metro areas which increasingly become populated by the wealthy and the poor, with the middle class being forced out by high home prices and poor schools.
We analyzed a decade of Census data through 2016. We found that while tech hubs like San Francisco and Seattle are still drawing young people, large East Coast cities, like New York and D.C., are fast approaching peak millennial, with plateauing populations of those born between 1980 and 1996. And then there are cities like Boston, which already appear to have reached their peak. Boston lost roughly 7,000 millennials in 2016, after a record high of 259,000 the previous year.
Try as they like, urban planners cannot convert Americans into Europeans. We Americans like our SUVs and backyards, where Europeans seem to like the planners’ preferred ‘hive’ housing and public transport. But then, Europeans have largely stopped having children....
America’s new high status vehicle: the deluxe heavy duty pickup truck! I love my 4WD F-350 diesel crew cab.
