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Originally Posted by rypinion
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Definitely interesting stuff.
The only thing I might caution about using age as a means for determining people's preferences is that it's probably not as accurate as using somebody's stage in life. Boomers and Gen-Xers at a similar age as Millenials would be right now were well ahead. They were married with children probably ~10 years in advance and their decisions would have reflected that. Millennials, on the other hand, spent more time becoming educated and delayed the sorts of decisions that would ultimately land them in the suburbs. The old '30 is the new 20' type of thing. Not to mention that significant North American population growth has meant that what was once considered suburban living is now considered living within a mature community and most millenials have been priced out of living within these communities; they have to go to a much farther-flung suburb to get the same effect which is now
much more inconvenient than it once was.
There's lots to this, and these are interesting statistics, but lots of it has to do with real estate becoming commodotized in the intervening 30 years...