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Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-we-live dept.

For a fun new entry into millennials are lazy, consider this: According to new data tracked down by Richard Fry for Pew Research, just 20 percent of 25- to 35-year-olds (Old Millennials, if you will) reported having lived at a different address the previous year. From a report on NYMag: In 2000, a full 26 percent of Gen-Xers -- then at the same age range -- had reported making a move in the previous year. In 1963, members of the Silent Generation moved at a 26 percent rate, too. The census data being used here doesn't include college-dorm moves prevalent with 18- to 24-year-olds, so those young'uns are left out of the analysis. The 20 percent rate is the lowest level of young adult mobility in half a century, Fry reports, and all this with millennials getting married, owning homes, and having kids less than previous generations. Student debt and less favorable lending rates may be driving down homeownership -- imagine that -- which further reduces movement. Psychologically, this also means that young adults are more stuck with their personalities and faded of memory compared with their more mobile peers.

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  1. sorry, what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "young adults are more stuck with their personalities and faded of memory "

    what?

  2. Re:It's not moves, it's jobs [Re:trying] by cayenne8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the only jobs around are fast food and retail, there's no reason to move-- there are McDongles and Arpies all over.

    Also...if you're living in your parent's basement, it is often difficult to convince them to move to where your next job offer comes from....

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  3. Re:Nobody *and* especially. by link-error · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot to add... "And get off my lawn!"

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  4. Re:Harder Than It Sounds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You expect a potential employer to pay to move your lifetime's worth of shit? Ha! That's pretty funny. Get real man.

    After about forty moves in my life I asked myself, why am I carrying all this shit around, renting trucks and humping it up and down stairs over and over? Do I really need it? The answer was no, I do not. So I hired a garbage skip and turfed the lot, keeping just my guitar, laptop and backpack of clothes. Ditched the car too, what a ball and chain that was!

    Now, as a mobile professional my philosophy is, if I cannot carry it all on my back in one load, then I do not need it. This has worked very well for me, and it has been most liberating.

    You'd be surprised by the freedom that having little to no "stuff" affords you.