Migration patterns of U.S. young people
Cities
Inequality: Let’s talk about 95-20 ratios in U.S. cities
A “95-20 ratio” compares the income of the top five percent of a city (the rich, essentially) with the bottom 20 percent (the poor, essentially) across the 50 largest U.S. cities. If the ratio is very high, that means the… Continue Reading
You know it rains more in Houston than Seattle?
Look, look, look … before we get too far into this party, you can slice data in a million different ways and contextualize it in a million different ways. (If you don’t believe that, go get into an argument with… Continue Reading
If you’re single in San Francisco, it’ll take you 17 years of income to buy a home
Read it, like it, share it. (Buttons at bottom.) I pretty much summarize every article Richard Florida writes on CityLab, so I might as well go ahead and summarize this one too. This is about “How Many Years Of Income… Continue Reading
4,364 people living in London have over $30 million in assets
Where the globally uber-rich tend to live. Continue Reading
You need to make $87,536 to buy a home in NYC; San Francisco? $142,448
From here, there’s this: This data comes from a mortgage research website (HSH.com) and is pretty much what you’d expect: the Northeast Corridor demands a relatively large salary (minus Philly, maybe); Florida is comparatively inexpensive (I thought Miami would be… Continue Reading
The six traits that an attractive city supposedly needs
Here are two interesting concepts related to this discussion: A lot of times, people will say things such as “The beauty of a city is subjective!” To a certain extent, that’s true; it’s also true that how someone perceives a… Continue Reading
Here are the 10 most economically-powerful cities in the world; yes, NYC is No. 1
Methodology here, but this tries to be fairly comprehensive and looks at these elements: Overall economic clout Financial power Global competitiveness Equity and quality of life The study uses those five indicators. Within each indicator, they rank 10 global cities… Continue Reading