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Housing and Mobility
A new study finds that housing prices have had a big effect on recent mobility. Here’s a snippet from Real Time Economics. Housing affordability has played a greater role in prompting residents to...
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Who’s Your NBA City?
You can add professional basketballer Hedo Turkoglu to the list of people who have relocated to Toronto thanks to its cosmopolitanism. Turkoglu, one of the most sought-after free agents on the market...
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Future Forward
The Center for Economic Growth and The Stakeholders present Future Forward, an event featuring Richard Florida, at the Palace Theatre in Albany, New York, on September 24, 2009. Richard will speak...
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Where the Kids Are Heading
The Wall Street Journal asked six experts to come up with lists of the “next youth magnet cities.” I was one of them. The top spot was a tie – D.C. and Seattle, followed by NYC, Portland (OR), Austin,...
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Global Movers
New research by the Gallup Organization finds that 700 million people – 16 percent of the world’s total population – would like to move to a different country than the one they currently call home....
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Who’s Your LegoClick City?
Now this is pretty cool. The great graphic above is from the folks at LegoClick.
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Who Stays
Sure, I’ve always been a huge fan of The Clash. Thus the title of this new paper, “Should I Stay or Should I Go, Now: The Effects of Community Satisfaction on the Decision to Stay or Move,” coauthored...
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You Are Where You Live
The great folks at GOOD magazine interviewed me for their neighborhoods issue. Here it is.
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Family Flight
It appears that families, not just the young and skilled, have been moving away from Rustbelt cities like Cleveland, according to this story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, based on a new report from...
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LeBron’s Location Decision
In the Denver airport Thursday night, traffic literally stopped as hurried passengers froze in front of TV screens to watch LeBron James’ press conference. Who would have thought that so much would...
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