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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Some of what you say is probably correct, but your implied premise is that the best are those living in the city. Probably false. [/quote]

I dont mean to say people who live in cities are the best and I dont want to start a debate about that. What I mean to say that younger people and Millenials mostly live in the city and want to live car-free. You are cutting yourself from a broad demographics, and I do not see the value of an off-metro location. Reducing cars on the road benefits everyone including those who drive to work.

My theory is that these companies are run by old school execs who have not adapted to the new car-free generation.

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The new care free generation will one day have strollers, go to Home Depot,  and have to buy groceries instead of avocado toast at bus boys. Plenty of young families have, do, and will continue to choose the suburbs.[/quote]

Don't fool yourself that anyone actually wants to make that move. Young families move to the car-dependent suburbs because 99% of them are totally priced out of the 2-3 neighborhoods that combine a truly car-optional lifestyle with halfway decent schools.

There is a huge demand for such places but until all the Boomer NIMBYs finally die off and take their car fetish with them, the supply will not expand to make them affordable for most families.[/quote]

So you're saying every single young family in MD & VA is only there because they desperately wanted to live in DC ...but couldn't afford it? You're lost in a fantasy of your own making. The car isn't going anywhere. In fact, when self-driving cars take hold it'll likely replace Metro as the most convenient way to get around. And getting back to the "tech talent" argument: if the suburbs are as undesirable as you make them out to be, why do hundreds of thousands of young, talented tech workers live in or near Mountain View, Menlo Park and Palo Alto? Because that's where the top companies are. [/quote]

City living is the exception, not the rule, even for millennials in tech.

People who work at SpaceX don't live in LA, let alone downtown LA. They live in suburbs like Manhattan Beach.

I've been an engineer my whole professional life, and I live in DC.  Most of my younger colleagues live in places like Reston, or Tysons; the more social ones live in Arlington.

I have some engineering friends that live in Denver proper, but their neighborhoods are suburban.[/quote]

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