Midlife crisis for Youth Cities
WSJ has an article on demographic changes in the ‘hip’ cities of the Creative Class during the current crisis. The basic punchline is that people aged 25-39 are still moving to hip cities like Portland, OR (not SF or NYC, I’d note), despite a lack of job opportunities. As a consequence, there is a ‘filtering up’ sort of effect, in which people take on jobs for which they are overqualified and those who they replace take jobs even lower in the status hierarchy, like dishwashing. There’s no discussion of what the former dishwashers are doing, however.
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