{"id":5470,"date":"2013-10-20T19:18:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T01:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2013-10-20T19:18:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T01:18:17","slug":"where-are-the-boomers-headed-not-back-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5470","title":{"rendered":"Where Are The Boomers Headed? Not Back To The City."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joelkotkin\/2013\/10\/17\/where-are-the-boomers-headed-not-back-to-the-city\/\">Joel Kotkin:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps no urban legend has played as long and loudly as the notion that \u201cempty nesters\u201d are abandoning their dull lives in the suburbs for the excitement of inner city living. This meme has been most recently celebrated in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Both stories, citing research by the real estate brokerage Redfin, maintained that over the last decade a net 1 million boomers (born born between 1945 and 1964) have moved into the city core from the surrounding area. \u201cAging boomers,\u201d the Post gushed, now \u201copt for the city life.\u201d It\u2019s enough to warm the cockles of a downtown real-estate speculator\u2019s heart, and perhaps nudge some subsidies from city officials anxious to secure their downtown dreams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Kotkin: Perhaps no urban legend has played as long and loudly as the notion that \u201cempty nesters\u201d are abandoning their dull lives in the suburbs for the excitement of inner city living. This meme has been most recently celebrated in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Both stories, citing research by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}