On Jun 26, 2013, at 6:32 AM, M Christol <[email protected]> wrote: > 6 factoids from Jeff Speck > I have not verified anything > > The millennials represent the biggest population bubble in fifty years. > http://amzn.to/NbgXST
Gee, the baby boomer's babies are a smaller baby boom...hoodathunkit! > > 64 percent of college-educated millennials choose first where they want to > live, and only then do they look for a job. As opposed to every other generation. > > Fully 77 percent of college-educated millennials plan to live in America’s > urban cores. Yeah, funny thing about 22-28-year-olds, they tend to be able to do things like live in funky downtown apartments and such. > > Of the 101 million new households expected to take shape between now and > 2025, fully 88 percent are projected to be childless. > I'd like to see what the meaning of that is...I suspect that it follows a long, long trend of people getting married NOT because she is pregnant, as well as having children later in life. > There are now more American households with dogs than children. > I'd be surprised is there wasn't since I'd wager a vast majority of households with children would also have dogs...they're not mutually exclusive! Also the percentage of American households with dogs has been steadily increasing. > While 4 million Americans lived alone in 1950, that number now tops 31 > million. http://amzn.to/NbgXST Gee, 1950, which iirc is the peak year of the baby boom? Kinda hard to 'live alone' when you have a 3-year-old. Also, in 1950 there was a genuine housing crisis in the US, a much larger (and growing poulation) after ten years of Depression depressing housing starts, and 5 years of WWII effectively stopping them, people had to double and triple up, even if they didn't want to. This housing crisis was what propelled the explosion of the suburbs with cheap stick-built houses and things like Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House. This is exactly what made America's cities thrive in the past. Thrive, in fact, until GM destroyed mass transit across the country <http://www.pbs.org/pov/takenforaride/>, Robert Moses lead the cars and highways out of the wilderness into the Urban Cores and destroyed large sections of NYC at the same time, and some guy named Levitt bought some old farmland out in Long Island after the war. Yes there's a new surge of urbanism, but it's being accompanied by an increase in poverty in the suburbs; we're starting tio see the reverse of urban flight. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/09/suburbs-losing-young-whit_n_569226.html> I've seen this book, he's right, but it's a little like that 'Generations' book that made Gen-X a word; they took a whole buncha random observations and threw 'correlation is not causation' out the window. This has diddly-squat to do with Millenials. The greatest cohort moving to the urban cores, in fact are 55-65-year old whites. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
