Cities Compete For Hipness
While Tacoma continues to evolve and attract people, will it ever be hip? The New York Times asserts that hipness, and a city’s attractiveness to young people, is the key to its future.
Cities have long competed over job growth, struggling to revive their downtowns and improve their image. But the latest population trends have forced them to fight for college-educated 25- to 34-year-olds, a demographic group increasingly viewed as the key to an economic future.
Mobile but not flighty, fresh but technologically savvy, “the young and restless,” as demographers call them, are at their most desirable age, particularly because their chances of relocating drop precipitously when they turn 35. Cities that do not attract them now will be hurting in a decade.
Are we interested in finding those downsizers that are leaving the job-force or the young people that’ll create the job-force of the future? With our propensity for new condos over $350k and relatively few new jobs, it worries me a bit…
Link to The New York Times
9 comments
M Mofo from the Hood February 17, 2009
I’ve had it with your nonsense.
A Adam Ydstie February 17, 2009
I was just thinking about all this the other day. I got mad at myself for getting mad at the stop lights when I wasn’t going fast enough in my 5 block return from a friend’s house. I could have walked… imagine the entertainment and people I could have encountered instead of sulking home mad at myself and those irksome red lights.
R RR Anderson February 17, 2009
Yo.
This is an article I would expect from CITY ARTS, not the hardworking folks of exit133.
I want my social capital back!
Y yorkshirepudding February 17, 2009
Keratin. Not calcium. Like hair, only thicker and more rigid.
Just a technicality, but somebody’s gotta keep you in line, after all.
T Thorax OTool February 18, 2009
Why do nimrods drive over the double-yellow line on Ruston way to pass you if you’re going less than 15 over the speed limit?
Terrible habits abound…
L lance kagey February 20, 2009
I’ve lived in my house for thirteen years. when I moved in, one of the windows in our bedroom was painted over. It’s still only half-scraped clean. it’s weird how we want to create a perfect society but end up sitting on the couch watching idol or as my friend calls it, “idle.” I learned to stop biting my nails but I’m a long way from broccoli.
I Intacoma February 20, 2009
DB let me know if you need help stopping, I have a really great solution. In the end you wont have any fingers though. You know I’ll set you up with the homey hookup
S Sandy February 21, 2009
Some grace. Me and Tacoma, we just need some freakin’ grace…
J Jesse February 22, 2009
Is this article about Tacoma? Really? Exit 133, as a whole, is slowly getting off topic.
Neet article but I don’t think it belongs on Exit 133…