While some may still think the suburbs invoke disdain in younger generations, numbers are proving more Millennials may want the calmer lifestyle. People aged 24 to 39 can be looped into the Millennial generation, and they are entering the next stage of their lives: preparing to settle down. So it may come as no shock that more and more Millennials are moving to the 'burbs, but Forbes says many are not coming to raise families—a popular reason why people flock to the suburbs. This is why Millennials, and older generations, are searching for apartments, condos, and garden communities in the suburbs.
But wait, suburbia is changing. Suddenly, the suburbs may be getting a second look. Not just from Boomers that were once seen as inevitably downsizing to the city or to a 50-something development, but from persnickety Millennials who could never see themselves living ‘out there.’ But, out there they are. In fact, for the past four-plus years there has been a decline of Millennials living in big cities. Could an on-going reshaping of suburbia become the basis of a truly multigenerational community?
Before COVID-19 set into motion long lines of cars on freeways and parkways filled with urban dwellers evacuating to vacation homes and to friends living ‘out there’ in search of more space, the suburbs were ‘urbanizing.’
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