Millennials are flocking to the Pacific Northwest, study finds

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-19/millennials-moving-west-portland-seattle

by hhs • 7 years ago

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gmclellan• 7 years ago

Millennial logic: Move to a place with a growing population, but expect rent to go down, and complain when it doesn’t.

spamizbad• 7 years ago

Boomer logic: considering yourself a proud capitalist while resisting new housing supply because of “character” “parking” while experiencing collective amnesia about the post-war ownership society where the housing “market” was built on the back of older tax payers.

Honestly if they’d have just built some freakin (affordable) houses millennials would have been fine. Instead we have click-baity pitty-articles about how some retiree can’t sell their 5000sqft $1.5mil dream homes to debt-strapped 30-somethings.

jacobmoe• 7 years ago

Boomer logic: oppose every new construction project anywhere near your neighborhood and mock millennials when they find there is a scarcity of affordable housing.

notus4• 7 years ago

Also Boomer logic: cut down every rezoning proposal for no reason

lykr0n• 7 years ago

They are pushing hard for Seattle/King County to establish Rent Control.

dang• 7 years ago

Please don't do generational flamewars on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

reilly3000• 7 years ago

PWN FTW.

PS. Spokane is terrible nobody should move here.

notus4• 7 years ago

When I was at Fairchild AFB for SERE training we had a break before it started and we got a ride into Spokane's Downtown. Immediately upon exiting the vehicle we saw a guy in front of a bar getting beat up by several people surrounding him and kicking him. Across the street a guy was staring at us and then lifted up his shirt to flash a piece. That combined with the memories of SERE training make me never want to return.

VRay• 7 years ago

Spokane is great, so long as you don't need a job

You might be able to make $80k as an engineer if you really push for it

You can buy a lordly mansion for $700k and the floor's the limit on normal houses

bigred100• 7 years ago

Spokane seemed to have many pretty parts but many violent aggressive guys on the streets and apparently a huge problem with violent white nationalists from what I understand

hanniabu• 7 years ago

Title: Millennials are flocking to the Pacific Northwest, study finds

Article: 2017 data suggests the westward trend has faded in recent years, in favor of areas like New Haven-Milford, Connecticut; Madison, Wisconsin; and Syracuse, New York.

So it sounds like the title should have been "Millennials are flocking East, study finds"

ajmurmann• 7 years ago

It almost felt like reading one of those machine-generated finance articles that fill in sentences with some stock statistics.

notus4• 7 years ago

Yeah I could see some of the sleepier east coast towns picking up. I know places like Portland Maine are pretty appealing to myself and other millennials but not sure if I could do the cold thing. Seems like all the lesser known metropolitan areas are picking up a lot of steam right now. Boise Idaho for example has also appealed to me.

crabasa• 7 years ago

I am not a millennial (born in 1977) but the combination of the strong regional economy and access to natural beauty (Puget Sound, Pacific Ocean, Olympic Peninsula, etc) is really amazing.

On top of this, the area has a significant resistance to the kind of temperature highs that are hitting most of the country right now. I spent the weekend camping on Vancouver Island where the high was 71 when I was there.

scythe• 7 years ago

The Seattle metro has grown by more than 10% every decade since 1940:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_metropolitan_area

I think this trend has a few decades left to go, especially as trans-Pacific trade (hopefully) continues to increase.

feketegy• 7 years ago

They saw the Francis Mallmann episode from Chef's Table on Netflix?

Millennials are flocking to the Pacific Northwest, study finds

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