Where the Educated Millennials Congregate

The text oversimplifies a bit. I think the group is moving into the city just as much as the suburbs. It's just that the city-proper has such a large population, a few zipcodes around downtown and midtown (the so-called "7.2 square miles") are easily swamped by the enormous expanse of the overall city (142 square miles). The same number of grads in a much smaller suburb like Royal Oak can seriously affect the numbers.

That being said, Metro Detroit is a fantastic place for startups, makers, manufacturing, and culture. Rent is affordable if you want to rent, land is cheap if you want to own, and wages that look so-so on a national scale are downright lucrative in light of the cost of living. We constantly rank high on wage-to-cost analyses, even worldwide. It's no wonder to me that we show up in this article, too.

It made me think that a lot of the hatred towards the changing landscape of SF is really just generational warfare. Older, established generations seem to resent the few millennials who have managed to eek out a halfway decent living for themselves despite everything.

Edit: I don’t think it’s intentional, but it’s unavoidable that complaints about “our city’s culture is changing” really come down to “our generation’s culture was better than your generation’s culture.”