Educated flight out of DC?
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Anonymous
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https://www.arlnow.com/2024/09/09/arlington-drops-to-second-most-educated-city-in-america/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2mjPwgcO6lZKVezEJb8WHUghT-lubMO4MKQHnDmUGdfsITedzTINHdIlU_aem_DYRvLvyzsZhg0weButBV4A
Buried in this article about Arlington is the fact that DC slipped from #3 to not top 100 for educated individuals. That's pretty shocking. |
jsteele
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Apparently Forbes changed its methodology. So DC may not have changed much, just how Forbes decided to rank cities.
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Anonymous
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What are the real numbers then?
Are educated people fleeing DC or not? |
Anonymous
Not. We're all still here. |
Anonymous
They adjusted the numbers to include an “equity” score and college dropouts. The rankings are a social justice score now, they don’t actually represent anything. |
Anonymous
| The educated are long gone from DC. As well as anyone with any common sense. |
Anonymous
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I can see it. The most educated are also people who work knowledge jobs that can often be done remotely. They can move elsewhere, where the cost of living is lower; closer to family; or just less traffic/hassle.
I work with a few such people in the IT industry, and more than a few have moved out of this area in the past couple years. They can work remotely so it's not an issue employment-wise. |
Anonymous
Apparently they have all fled to Arlington. |
Anonymous
Nah, we’re still here. And some of us are waiting for the complaining transplants to move to Virginia. Actually though, DC is a small expensive city, surrounded by suburbs, with quite a lot of space taken up by Federally controlled properties. It shouldn’t be a surprise that many people— especially those who moved to the area primarily for work — would live in the suburbs and exurbs. I know a lot of people whose first homes in DC as singles or couples were rental apartments— who then moved further out in search of houses that they could afford, especially when they had kids. It’s a pretty common pattern in areas with expensive cities and less expensive, more expansive suburban options. |
Anonymous
Statistically irrelevant sample size. |
Anonymous
| The truly smart ones left in the 80s. It has been a long slow exodus since then. If you haven’t left by now, you are misjudging your intelligence by a wide margin. |
Anonymous
It was nice while it lasted. Now there are some that want to urbanize the suburbs. I suppose that nice things can’t stay nice forever. |
Anonymous
So strange how Americans hate their cities. Since cities are really social hubs where people come together for work and culture, it really reflects how much Americans despise each other. |
Anonymous
We lived in the city for 20+ years and outlasted many of our neighbors but the crime and homelessness issues got to be too much. It’s the politicians who hate the cities by letting vagrants and criminals overrun them. |
Anonymous
| Unless you are young and ambitious with a preference for urban lifestyle, why wouldn't you move to cheaper suburbs? |