Temporary until they have kids and want to send them outside to jump on the trampoline to get some quiet.
when they breed, they will want good schools that you simply can’t get in the city center. As they age, they will want a little more space and a little less nightclub
When Generation Y starts to age and gets the inevitable aches and pains, they’re not going to be so keen about walking everywhere.
Oh yes, these people want to be living in the middle of the feral urban yutes...good luck with that.
no HOA period.
This is nothing but environmentalist propaganda. And if it is true, it's because they brainwashed the little buggers in government-propaganda schools.
I have said for years that the REALLY big houses (3500+sf) will become very much less desirable...cost of heating, lighting, maintenance will be part of the problem,....However...I do NOT believe Gen Y will not want a car....ha....skiing? hiking? travel? this is some loons idiot interpretation of the narcissitic child’s mind...they will grow up. PS I have 7 Gen Y’s in my family...WHEELS are VERY important.
There's a number of Gen-Y suburbs in towns neighboring mine. They're also hideously overpriced, centrally-planned, HOA-ruled communities that don't take kindly to non-Gen-Yers. All of them look like brand-new mining towns, all painted in friendly earth tones and all built using mixed-material steel panel and clapboard wood construction.
In a decade or two, after they've been through a few winters and the owners can't afford the expensive, custom up-keep due to the mixed-material construction, I predict they're going to look like shanty towns.
I thought living rooms and dining rooms were replaced by ‘great rooms’ years ago. The article must be talking about real, sizable homes that still have those formal rooms, not typical new family homes.
My family fits this trend in more than one way.
1. We sold a 4,000 square footer in CA that has since declined by 400K in value.
2. We want to walk everywhere and live in a 90% walkable location in CO.
3. My gen Y kids are the same. One lives in Union County New Jersey, car-less. Another would live in Europe if she could, car-less. The third joined the Navy, to be car-less.
“Here’s what Generation Y doesn’t want: formal living rooms, soaker bathtubs, dependence on a car. “
GenY are jsut stupid little kids that refused to grow up/
Hmmm... I am about the only person I know that actually took where they could walk into consideration before moving. With the exception of bars, walking really isn’t a consideration with my GenY relatives. The GenY’s I am acquainted with that own homes have all bought in established neighborhoods with older housing stock that needs some sort of updating. They are renovating as they go along to modernize and personalize their homes. They are all looking to be in their houses for several years.
...because it's oh-so-trendy and uber-cool.
Fast-forward a few years, when they have school-age kids and they get a look at the teeming hellholes of chaos known as urban schools. Suddenly, that I-heart-the-city cosmopolitanism isn't such a draw anymore.
Fixed.
I must have raised the strangest kids ever! All three of my boys want to live way out in the country, have 4x4 trucks with a lifts on them, be able to hunt, fish, ride 4 wheelers and dirtbikes.
“One-third are willing to pay for the ability to walk,” “They don’t want to be in a cookie-cutter type of development. ...The suburbs will need to evolve to be attractive to Gen Y.”
My gen X friends said the exact same thing back in 1991:
1) Guess what...most are married, live in cookie cutter developments and drive everywhere.
2) others had enough of the rat race,went off the grid and moved into the country where it was SAFER to grow their weed...
3) Some moved overseas
4) I’m the LAST of a group of friends who still lives in a mostly Urban area.
This, we cannot allow. History is my witness.