Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com)

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.

Comments

Re:having kids is dumb

[Anonymous Coward]

Getting married without having children is REALLY stupid. Why bother? The only reason to get married is to raise children. Otherwise just live together.

Re:moving all the time is dumb

[Miamicoastguard]

8 Children is criminal, what is wrong with you?

That's easy for you to say

[rsilvergun]

because of this: "I make enough money that I didn't really have to choose".

Most folks don't really get to choose. A substantial percentage of the populace has no or restricted access to birth control and well, it's a biological imperative for a reason. Hell, until recently getting knocked up at 30 was a death sentence (Voltaire's mistress wrote of getting her papers in order when she found out she was pregnant because she didn't expect to live).

As someone who never had the shit kicked out of them in life it's easy to see the good in raising a child. For the rest of us (at least 60% if statistics on people with more than $500 in the bank are to be believed) if we're at all reasonable then it seems bat-shit crazy. A horrible thing for both you and the child who will undoubtedly be miserable as poverty inevitably crushes them down like it did their parents...