Where are college students going after they graduate?

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Anonymous wrote: But the northeast has more Teslas(enjoy next 4 years) and lots of kids wearing $1800 Canada goose jackets thru May.

The NE also has more liberal policies that young people tend to support. And you've clearly not been to NYC in the spring.

Younger people are more conservative. Times have changed, grandma.

18-24 had the largest % of voters for Harris

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/28/gen-z-men-conservative-poll

Do you not understand math? “More likely” of a small number is still a small number.

Young people still lean liberal. Suck it.

Trump, Vance, and Musk won. Woke lost. Suck it yourself.

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Anonymous wrote: But the northeast has more Teslas(enjoy next 4 years) and lots of kids wearing $1800 Canada goose jackets thru May.

The NE also has more liberal policies that young people tend to support. And you've clearly not been to NYC in the spring.

Younger people are more conservative. Times have changed, grandma.

18-24 had the largest % of voters for Harris

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/28/gen-z-men-conservative-poll

Do you not understand math? “More likely” of a small number is still a small number.

Young people still lean liberal. Suck it.

Also, young men are less likely to vote than young women.

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Anonymous wrote:Which region has high taxes, horrible weather, and high housing prices? Hint not the South.

And high paying jobs and the locals don’t hate women? Hint, not the south.

Taxes provide services, including schools. Which is why the best school systems tend to be in the NE.

And yet people are voting with their feet. States like NY have population decreases and Texas, Florida and NC are growing. You can’t dispute the census data. This link is about applications for jobs and says nothing about where students would prefer to live (no one polled them) or where they ended up accepting jobs.

It’s a fair assumption that students are applying to jobs that they would want to accept. Most students from the South are applying outside of the region. That speaks for itself.

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Anonymous wrote: But the northeast has more Teslas(enjoy next 4 years) and lots of kids wearing $1800 Canada goose jackets thru May.

The NE also has more liberal policies that young people tend to support. And you've clearly not been to NYC in the spring.

Younger people are more conservative. Times have changed, grandma.

18-24 had the largest % of voters for Harris

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/28/gen-z-men-conservative-poll

Do you not understand math? “More likely” of a small number is still a small number.

Young people still lean liberal. Suck it.

Trump, Vance, and Musk won. Woke lost. Suck it yourself.

“Woke” always wins in the end. You can try to fight progress but it’s inevitable.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, it goes to show the "students are all fleeing to the south for college" posters the truth, that while these kids enjoy the warm weather and cheaper prices, they don't want to live long-term in the south

+1 the high paying jobs are still not in the south. And I don't think kids are wanting to go south for college because of politics, but more because the NE colleges are getting harder to get into and the weather.

Which is why most try to leave as soon as they graduate.

They don’t, that’s the entire point.

MAGAs love to push their “alternate facts”.

Most college grads in the south are trying to get TF out. 72% of their job applications are outside of the south.

“Of all applications from students and recent grads at schools in the South, 28% went to jobs in that region. New York City again was the top city drawing applications from candidates in the South, accounting for 25% of all applications.”

This is an analysis of job applications. It is not moving data. It is not a poll about where people want to move. It also doesn’t tell us where they moved to.

What we know about actual move data comes from the census and which states are growing and which ones are experiencing population decline. We also see the trend for students attending schools in the south and greater percentages.

I’m sorry all of this hurts your political ego.

Indeed, this data tells us that most of the desirable jobs are still not in the south. It also tells us that they are willing to go where the jobs are.

Anecdotally, neither of my kids want to live in the south, nor do they want to go to college in the south. If they can help it, they'd rather go to NYC, CA or Seattle after graduation.

People move to the south because it's cheap, and there's a reason why it's cheaper.

Exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get the South stats when 1/2 the top 15 cities are in the South…unless Dallas, Austin and even DC (yeah it’s on the border, so maybe they throw it to the northeast…but it’s technically the South) aren’t considered the South.

Same. Don’t get it. Nashville and Austin are absolutely booming with 20-somethings. They’re among the fastest growing cities, verified

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With remote work on the outs---those low cost of living areas will not be getting college degree kids that NEED jobs. The white collar workers follow the jobs---even if they aren't crazy about the location.

The DMV has the highest number of college educated working mid-20-30-somethings (by working--real jobs not baristas, etc).

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Anonymous wrote:With remote work on the outs---those low cost of living areas will not be getting college degree kids that NEED jobs. The white collar workers follow the jobs---even if they aren't crazy about the location.

The DMV has the highest number of college educated working mid-20-30-somethings (by working--real jobs not baristas, etc).

+1 my spouse is a contractor. All of those people working in bama and smaller southern cities have all been called back to DC (and they aren't even Feds, they are Civs).

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Sorry---southerners...

States that house the most educated millennials are largely located in the Northeast and on the Eastern seaboard, led by Massachusetts, where 51 percent of millennials hold college degrees. The highly ranked states outside of this region include Minnesota, Illinois, and Colorado.

Where do most college educated people live?
Educational attainment, adults 25 and older

Washington, DC is continuously ranked as the most educated region in the country, with 63% of the population receiving a bachelor's degree or higher as of 2021. Massachusetts followed closely with 47% of the population obtaining a bachelor's degree or higher.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry---southerners...

States that house the most educated millennials are largely located in the Northeast and on the Eastern seaboard, led by Massachusetts, where 51 percent of millennials hold college degrees. The highly ranked states outside of this region include Minnesota, Illinois, and Colorado.

Where do most college educated people live?
Educational attainment, adults 25 and older

Washington, DC is continuously ranked as the most educated region in the country, with 63% of the population receiving a bachelor's degree or higher as of 2021. Massachusetts followed closely with 47% of the population obtaining a bachelor's degree or higher.

+100

YEP:

https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/search/best-cities-for-young-professionals/

Top, in order:
Cambridge, Mass
San Fran
DC
Arlington, VA
Alexandria (#10)

The South does NOT show up until #17 with Atlanta
Boston

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^ sorry Boston was listed after Arlington, VA

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry---southerners...

States that house the most educated millennials are largely located in the Northeast and on the Eastern seaboard, led by Massachusetts, where 51 percent of millennials hold college degrees. The highly ranked states outside of this region include Minnesota, Illinois, and Colorado.

Where do most college educated people live?
Educational attainment, adults 25 and older

Washington, DC is continuously ranked as the most educated region in the country, with 63% of the population receiving a bachelor's degree or higher as of 2021. Massachusetts followed closely with 47% of the population obtaining a bachelor's degree or higher.

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YEP:

https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/search/best-cities-for-young-professionals/

Top, in order:
Cambridge, Mass
San Fran
DC
Arlington, VA
Alexandria (#10)

The South does NOT show up until #17 with Atlanta
Boston

This is a nutshell is why Trump is attacking DC ---to win the votes of the uneducated.

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Makes sense to attend a university where the jobs are located.

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Many of the kids going to school in the south are doing it for the weather and the party, sports culture. Almost every single one of them who I know went back to the DC area, NY, or Chicago for jobs after graduation. Everyone wants to go where the white-collar jobs with $$ are. South for college and go back north for career growth.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get the South stats when 1/2 the top 15 cities are in the South…unless Dallas, Austin and even DC (yeah it’s on the border, so maybe they throw it to the northeast…but it’s technically the South) aren’t considered the South.

Same. Don’t get it. Nashville and Austin are absolutely booming with 20-somethings. They’re among the fastest growing cities, verified

Don’t they teach math in the south?