Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Development

Re:Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Develo... by Reason077 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:14PM (#16746155)

"Without getting into a fight about why urban schools are dysfunctional, they are, and that will drive families to suburbs."

It's interesting if that is the case in the US: it was also true in the UK in the 1980s and 90s with Central London having a reputation for poor schools.

However, today the UK situation is completely reversed and the narrative is more about why schools in the regions don't perform as well as schools in the capital.

One eye-opening statistic I read recently is that a disadvantaged/poor kid growing up in Hackney, East London (which is about as 'urban' as it gets here) is 3X more likely to go to university than a similarly disadvantaged kid growing up in the North of England.

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Re:Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Develo... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:04PM (#16747369)

Did you consider that the cost/benifit of higher education might be different in North England?

That's how it is in the rural US.

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Re:Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Develo... by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:34PM (#16747708)

I'd say it's even more important in the North because of the paucity of opportunities.

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Re:Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Develo... by gambiting on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:48PM (#16747847)

In what way? Tuition cost is capped - it costs exactly the same to go to Oxford or UCL as it does to a small university in the North.

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Re:Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Develo... by dogma1138 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:27PM (#16748239)

The tuition is not the biggest cost of education living expenses are. Oxford is dead expensive and UCL is in the heart of London.

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