Gensler<\/a>\u00a0looked at the top 27 metros in the U.S. and surveyed about 2,200 childless residents between the ages of 18 and 34 from July and November last year. The survey is part of the company\u2019s broader research on what makes cities magnetic, finding that proximity to climate perils, stalled traffic, crime, and sparse job opportunities are causing young adults to move from some major U.S. metros.<\/p>\nWhile many New Times readers agreed with Gensler\u2019s findings, dozens had their own takes as to why young people are chirping about flying the coop.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s because Miami is basically sponsored by Instagram now. Influencer town,\u201d offered one Facebook user.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean yeah \u2026 even when they graduate with a degree, they still won\u2019t make enough to afford the cost of living in Miami on their own,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo reproductive rights for women, highest HIV and STDs in the nation (I worked at HIV clinics here), surrounded by oligarch\u2019s obnoxious kids spending war money, no rent control, and water is too dirty to swim in,\u201d wrote another user.<\/p>\n
Most rankings of STD-infected cities place Miami in the teens, but the point is well taken. Others had more comical takes on the survey.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs moving to Hialeah or Opa-locka considered leaving Miami?\u201d quipped one.<\/p>\n
Another pointed out that plan was a key qualifier in the study, writing, \u201c\u2018Plan\u2019 to leave \u2026 they aren\u2019t going anywhere. No place like Miami.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCause it\u2019s expensive as fuck and not everyone has a sugar daddy,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n
Some laid it on the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising,\u201d wrote one. \u201cSouth Florida is beautiful, but the cost of living, climate risks, and limited career growth make it hard for young people to build long-term stability.<\/p>\n
And others shared revelations they had after leaving Miami, with many saying they haven\u2019t looked back since. One waxed eloquent, describing her exodus as one of the best decisions in her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI left in 2022 and honestly it was one of the best decisions of my life. I make three times the salary I was making at the last job I had in Miami and my quality of life is exponentially better,\u201d she wrote. \u201cPeople don\u2019t wake up and immediately choose to be an obnoxious asshole in public over here. Cost of living is much lower, wages are much higher, better access to fresh food directly from farms, commute to work is only 15 minutes as opposed to an hour. Yeah, Miami is kind of fucking over unless you have crypto-scam or [OnlyFans] money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent study found that more than half of all young adults in Miami say they want to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5885,740,1563,1644,123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-66424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-headlines","14":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66424","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=66424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}