Current Events > Why do millennials HAVE to live in coastal states

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It seems every state that doesn't have an ocean coast = flyover state
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Damn_Underscore posted...

It seems every state that doesn't have an ocean coast = flyover state

Not true. Millennials like Colorado and Chicago. The rest...not so much. I mean most of the major urban centers are on the coast

Colorado you're right about but Illinois is more of a flyover state with a non-flyover city according to millennials.
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CruelBuffalo posted...

Not true. Millennials like Colorado and Chicago. The rest...not so much. I mean most of the major urban centers are on the coast

Nashville has a pretty hot housing market, lots of people moving there (not sure its millenials specifically)
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Screw the coast, I like my house not falling into the ocean in the future, thanks.
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Master_Bass posted...

Screw the coast, I like my house not falling into the ocean in the future, thanks.

What.
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That's where all the tech jobs are. You know, the jobs you need a college education for?

Austin, TX
Nashville, TN
Salt Lake City, UT
Denver, CO
Burlington, VT
Minneapolis, MN
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Why do millennials have to exist? Cant we just call the human race quits and start over?
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_Rinku_ posted...

That's where all the tech jobs are. You know, the jobs you need a college education for?

Finance too, pharma, etc
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Because that way they can get all of the cool tech toys from China shipped to them while the landlocked states are still using flip phones

Asherlee10 posted...

Balrog0 posted...

CruelBuffalo posted...

Not true. Millennials like Colorado and Chicago. The rest...not so much. I mean most of the major urban centers are on the coast

Nashville has a pretty hot housing market, lots of people moving there (not sure its millenials specifically)

I'm not sure I understand the appeal.

Nashville seems fine to me, but I don't really get it, either
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Because that's where literally everyone has lived since the beginning of colonization?

Because that is where most people live, thus where they were born?
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What are non-cities doing to appeal to millennials?
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Antifar posted...

What are non-cities doing to appeal to millennials?

what does that have to do with flyover states? we have cities, too
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i was born and raised in the city i still reside in. the only times i have been out of it was in parts of my childhood for a few years. and that one year in vegas.

if i had the choice i rather live in one of those bigger city's.

eugene
springfield
beaverton
portland.
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Because admitting that living in such areas is an option would utterly kill their "we can't afford to live" platform they use to demand handouts.
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DarkTransient posted...

Because admitting that living in such areas is an option would utterly kill their "we can't afford to live" platform they use to demand handouts.

Yeah moving across the country is viable for so many people after all. Lazy bastards
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hockeybub89 posted...

DarkTransient posted...

Because admitting that living in such areas is an option would utterly kill their "we can't afford to live" platform they use to demand handouts.

Yeah moving across the country is viable for so many people after all. Lazy bastards

most of the millenials who complain about housing prices have moved across the country

that is why the housing prices are so high, because people keep moving there
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Balrog0 posted...

Antifar posted...

What are non-cities doing to appeal to millennials?

what does that have to do with flyover states? we have cities, too

And millennials are going to those cities! They love fucking Austin and Nashville and Denver and

To the extent that millennials are flocking to coastal states in particular, that's mostly just NY, SF, and LA, areas where professional industries of media, finance, tech are all highly concentrated.
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Is Chicago in a coastal state?
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So they can complain that the price of their 1 room apartment is too high.
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As a millennial, I greatly enjoy living in the wonderful coastal city of Kansas City.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Colorado you're right about but Illinois is more of a flyover state with a non-flyover city according to millennials.

You have obviously not been to the north side of Chicago. Its a millennial hipster playground. Even the west side is getting gentrified by millenials. Plenty of millenial yuppies have corporate jobs down town too. A lot of them out of towners.
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Asherlee10 posted...

theAteam posted...

Austin, TX
Nashville, TN
Salt Lake City, UT
Denver, CO
Burlington, VT
Minneapolis, MN

Texas has a coast and Austin isn't that far from it.

It's not a "coastal city" by any means
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I spent at least half my life living in a coastal state but not the "right coastal state"

on the west coast, only california matters, both to californians and to the rest of the country. 9 times out of 10 if a fictional story is set on the west coast it is in CA. and many foreigners don't even know WA and OR exist. they think CA stretches from Mexico to Canada.

anyway, I have a long experience with being mocked and ignored in my state. so I always understood how "flyover states" felt. and now I moved to possibly the most ignored state in the entire country. so I am sympathetic to all states that people like to make fun of. But mainly I put 90% of the blame game on CA and NY. those are the most egocentric states in the nation. they both think they are the best and that the rest of the country should worship them.

I'm willing to ally with any other state in a campaign to take those 2 down a peg

@Zikten posted...

I'm willing to ally with any other state in a campaign to take those 2 down a peg

What about an insurgent within the heart of CA who wants to split CA into 7 little states? Will you be my ally?
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Zikten posted...

I spent at least half my life living in a coastal state but not the "right coastal state"

on the west coast, only california matters, both to californians and to the rest of the country. 9 times out of 10 if a fictional story is set on the west coast it is in CA. and many foreigners don't even know WA and OR exist. they think CA stretches from Mexico to Canada.

anyway, I have a long experience with being mocked and ignored in my state. so I always understood how "flyover states" felt. and now I moved to possibly the most ignored state in the entire country. so I am sympathetic to all states that people like to make fun of. But mainly I put 90% of the blame game on CA and NY. those are the most egocentric states in the nation. they both think they are the best and that the rest of the country should worship them.

I'm willing to ally with any other state in a campaign to take those 2 down a peg

I'm from California. Why are you typing this and not kissing the ground I walk on? Better get busy.

Also, Washington is hardly ignored.
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Cornmuffins posted...

I'm from California. Why are you typing this and not kissing the ground I walk on? Better get busy.

Also, Washington is hardly ignored.

As somebody who's also from CA, you're pretty arrogant.
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KamenRiderBlade posted...

@Zikten posted...

I'm willing to ally with any other state in a campaign to take those 2 down a peg

What about an insurgent within the heart of CA who wants to split CA into 7 little states? Will you be my ally?

ok. you can be alright. you would be like a freedom fighter trying to overthrow an empire

I desperately wish people would stop moving to Nashville.
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KamenRiderBlade posted...

Cornmuffins posted...

I'm from California. Why are you typing this and not kissing the ground I walk on? Better get busy.

Also, Washington is hardly ignored.

As somebody who's also from CA, you're pretty arrogant.

I was mocking him
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Cornmuffins posted...

Also, Washington is hardly ignored.

to some degree it is. I mean ok people know it exists but most of the time if someone says "im going out west" they mean they are going to CA. and one time there was this contest online, it might have been on gamefaqs but someone asked non americans, or I think mostly people from Europe were asked....to draw a picture of the US, all states, like a map, just from pure memory or knowledge without looking anything up. and I have a very clear memory of one person's map had CA on the entire west coast, and WA and OR just didn't exist.

Well yeah, that's why people refer to it as the PNW
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The inferiority complex Seattle has with the bay in astounding. Thankfully Rams moved back so Niners can go back to ignoring Seahawks and hating LA

lmao who gives a fuck what anyone thinks of where you live

people who wear a municipality like it's a badge are no better than the rest of the bottom nationalists. i'll never understand it.

as for tc's question:

millennials see opportunity where there is economic growth (mostly in the city) because they don't live in a vacuum like their pre-internet parents.
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Pittsburgh is another example. The city is millennials out the ass.
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Asherlee10 posted...

Kombucha posted...

people who wear a municipality like it's a badge are no better than the rest of the bottom nationalists. i'll never understand it.

I don't know that it's always a bad thing. I'm proud to be from Austin because my family has been here a very long time and has played a role in developing the city into what it has become.

austin is a relatively good city judging by my experiences there, but the fact is there are many cities that are better or worse than austin depending on what parameters you're going to measure a municipality on. mainly what i am referring to is the general hubris that some people bring to the table when they start talking about a place they reside- as if it is somehow better than anything else on planet earth. this is particularly annoying if the person lives in a vacuum and has never travelled.
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I live in Arizona, the proximity to California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas, is kind of handy.
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