Millennials are moving to 'the most boring places in the world'

Mon, 01/08/2024 - 05:54

Person carrying moving boxes, departing a bustling city, transitioning to a quaint farmhouse with an old-fashioned Water Pumping Windmill — The housing market and aging are turning millennials into what they swore they'd never become: their suburban parents.
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Jandra Sutton feels like a lucky millennial. She and her partner were able to sell their house in suburban Tennessee and buy a condo in downtown Nashville in 2019, before mortgage rates and home prices skyrocketed.

A few years of suburban living had made the couple "miserable," says Sutton, a 34-year-old writer and content creator. "The closest coffee shop was 15 to 20 minutes away, there wasn't a lot to do in the area, and none of our friends wanted to make the drive to visit us," she says. "It was so isolating."