High-School Dropouts and College Grads Are Moving to Very Different Places

Re:High-School Dropouts and College Grads Are Moving to Very... by techsupporter on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @06:47PM (#7913398)

Does anyone have a guess as to who all of these people are who are moving into these expensive metro areas? I read the same thing about Seattle, that it's too expensive to live comfortably in the city so people are moving to the bordering suburbs (like Shoreline or Burien), yet the city grew faster than the suburbs over the past couple of years. Is this a case of "nobody goes there, it's too crowded" or am I missing a link somewhere?

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Re:High-School Dropouts and College Grads Are Moving to Very... by worldpeace on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @07:20PM (#7913513)

This is measuring domestic migration, New York City's growth is primarily international migration.

Here's an article from the same guys explaining the difference:

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/04/2-very-different-mig...

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Re:High-School Dropouts and College Grads Are Moving to Very... by Tiksi on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @08:06PM (#7913670)

Well I say "a lot of people" but its still a minority. Most people do stay in the city, live with roommates, etc. 30k people is an insignificant drop in the bucket compared to NYC's 8 million residents. On top of that, There are a lot of people who move into the city who already have established careers and have a well paying job lined up, or moved out of the city after college and then moved back after they've moved into higher paying positions.

On top of that there is a lot of international money moving into New York, as another commenter mentioned, and generally into the 2+br apartments with a family, further driving up the cost of living even with a roommate in the "safe" areas.

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