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this is extremely wrong. I watched the city I grew up rapidly gentrify, and I have seen my new city(nyc) rapidly gentrify over the past decade. I think your opinion is due to personal underexposure and perhaps some bias toward urban lifestyles.


Actually, I live in the middle of my city. I grew up in NYC and a rural town and settled in a mid sized city.

The pattern is pretty clear, people stick around until kindergarten or middle school. At that point, 50% leave, 25% catholic school, 25% stick around.




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