{"id":53168,"date":"2025-11-19T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53168\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:11:05","slug":"why-do-so-many-young-people-in-miami-plan-to-leave-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53168\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do So Many Young People in Miami Plan to Leave the City?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years after arriving in droves during the pandemic<\/a>, young adults\u2019 love for Miami may be souring. That\u2019s what a new study suggests, finding more than half of young adults in Miami saying they\u2019re likely to move away.<\/p>\n

Global design firm Gensler<\/a> looked at the top 27 metros in the U.S. and surveyed about 2,200 childless residents between the ages of 18 and 34 between July and November 2024. The survey is part of the company\u2019s broader research on what makes cities magnetic, and it turns out high costs of living, proximity to climate perils, and traffic are apparently off-putting to young adults searching for a metro to settle; go figure.<\/p>\n

The survey found Miami had the third-highest percentage (51.8 percent) of respondents who said they\u2019re considering leaving South Florida; only Baltimore (61.6 percent) and Charlotte (58.3 percent) ranked higher. The same question was posed to three other categories of adults found that those 55 and older were the least likely to move out of the 305 (about 25 percent), those 35-54 with no children were the second least likely (about 38 percent), and about 47 percent of adults with children said they were likely to move.<\/p>\n

Roughly 29 percent of Miami adults said they\u2019re likely to leave the city over climate-change risks, a figure surpassed only by Houston (48 percent) and Tampa (31 percent).<\/p>\n

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The broader study, which included 33,000 urbanites from 65 of the world\u2019s largest metros across 30 countries, ranked Miami 55th in terms of how satisfied residents are living here, with 65 percent saying they are. Baltimore (64th), Philadelphia (61st), and Portland (60th) saved Miami from the U.S. losers\u2019 podium by ranking below the 305.<\/p>\n

The survey\u2019s global respondents noted that the most significant factors when deciding to live in a city (listed here from most to least important) were cost of living, level of crime, high-quality healthcare, job opportunities, and tax rates. The study also found that smaller cities, which \u201coffer a relatively lower cost of living and a higher perceived quality of life\u201d are becoming increasingly popular. <\/p>\n

Longevity plays a key part in what the report describes as \u201cplace attachment;\u201d the longer residents stay in a city, the less likely they are to leave. Feeling a strong sense of belonging also motivates people to remain in their chosen locale.<\/p>\n

The study included a handful of questions Miami residents answered about how the city is doing in key metrics. About 49 percent of Miamians think the city is economically strong, 54 percent say it\u2019s peaceful and stable, 66 percent say the city is vibrant, 50 percent say it\u2019s improving quality of life, 46 percent say it\u2019s investing in neighborhoods, 32 percent say it\u2019s addressing homelessness, and 41 percent say it\u2019s reducing crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Years after arriving in droves during the pandemic, young adults\u2019 love for Miami may be souring. That\u2019s what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5885,123,125,124,2908,480],"class_list":{"0":"post-53168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-national-spotlight","13":"tag-real-estate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}