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Breaking news: According to a Pew Research Center survey, young people want to live in big cities like New York (or Los Angeles)! As for everyone else, NYC doesn't rank as high. The NY Times explains a Big Apple yearning is more likely "if [respondents] already live in a city, in the East, are black, college educated, make more than $100,000, have never been married, have no children, are liberal and don’t regularly attend religious services." Also, those 18-29 looking for a "faster lifestyle" prefer NYC. However, the city most of the survey's respondents like? Denver. Pew Research's Rick Morin said, "It's a city that ranks high on most of the lists. It's a new city, a growing city, a younger city on what most people would perceive as the doorstep of God's country — the Rocky Mountains." Other desirable-to-live-in cities include San Diego, Seattle, Orlando, Tampa and San Francisco while the least are Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh. I Love NY mug, at the City Store
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nyc kinda starts to suck as people mature, only exception being maybe couples who choose to not have kids
I wouldn't want to live in 'Pittsurgh' either.
NYC is a great place in your 20s. Tons of night life action and stuff to do. Once you're married have kids most people want a quiet place to live in.
I moved here from Washington DC and there wasn't another city I'd live in. I will either stay here or move back there only. Just something about an East Coast city (expect Philly lol)
What about Hot as Hades Phoenix? I've been here going on 10 years and only miss home during the summer months. Hmm I wonder why that is so?
PHX Ain't Easy!!
Detroit isn't desirable? But Gran Torino made it look so appealing!
are hipsters represented in this survey? what do they think?
It's not just twentysomethings. There are plenty of people in their thirties (or older) who appreciate the concentration of culture, the vibrancy, the night-life, and the critical mass of smart and interesting people that you find in NYC. And NYC is really sui generis; there is no other city in the United States (and few in the world) that offers all of these attributes to the degree that they exist here.
While married couples with young families do inexorably end up moving to the suburbs, there are often trade-offs involved in the shift to a stultifying suburban existence.
Darn!
I was hoping some of those people would say Detroit.
I spent some time in Denver last spring, it's pretty nice. If you're ever there bring some chap stick though, it gets very dry up there. Good little downtown area, the mountains are obviously gorgeous.
I'm from Denver and I can tell you that it is sooo boring. JMH's comment of little downtown area should have an emphasis on "little." On top of that, Denver is very isolated. It's not like you can just hop in the car or on a bus and be in another city in a few hours (except for Cheyenne, which is barely a city).
Even as a married person, NYC is a dazzling place to live, even when it's exhausting.
No mention in the report about sexual orientation.
You mean Portland?