High school dropouts seem to be moving to Riverside, CA and Cape Coral, FL

Check out the chart above; it’s from the awesome-to-read Richard Florida at CityLab. The stuff on the far right shouldn’t surprise you: the “most educated” people are heading to Seattle, San Francisco, DC, Denver, and San Jose/The Valley. This corresponds with previous… Continue Reading

Is Dublin, Ohio going to be the future of the American neighborhood?

Here are a few things we seem to know about the America of the future: walkability will be important to residents, as will good public transportation options (even though BRT seems to be meeting with opposition in some places), and the… Continue Reading

Most urban sprawl, 2000-2010? Myrtle Beach. Least? Tallahassee.

Sprawl is a pretty big topic — and has ties back to politics, too — with a lot of impact on where people eventually want to move/settle. Now there’s a new report doing a longitudinal study of urban sprawl from 2000-2010;… Continue Reading

The One D Index (which sounds dirty, yes) will tell you to live in Grand Rapids, Minneapolis, Seattle, Austin or Portland

One Detroit just created a portal and scorecard system to essentially compare their region to 53 other large metro regions in the United States. You can learn a little more about their methodology here, and get a simpler breakdown here, but… Continue Reading

When politics confuses you, remember this: it’s mostly about voting by party

Politics can often be confusing, but if you dig just below the surface, it doesn’t have to be. Consider this. Pew recently did a study on Presidential candidate traits, and they found some things you’d expect: military experience, Governor, business… Continue Reading

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The I-95 corridor, economy-wise, is basically Germany (oh, and the United States is now essentially 12 mega-regions)

Peter Hamby, from CNN, was one of my college roommates; we were talking a while back and he told me that sometimes, as he travels around America on political stories, he thinks it’s just a mix of large cities and… Continue Reading

DC, Colorado, Ohio, Minnesota and Maryland have the most Chipotle restaurants per capita. Something about that seems odd.

I unabashedly love Chipotle, despite the fact (EDIT: because of the fact…) that I’m a white male raised middle-class in a major urban center. They have good food, it seems fresh, it comes pretty quickly, and they have cool marketing campaigns. Investors… Continue Reading

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What millennials seem to want out of cities: walkability, public transportation, good schools and parks (car is not necessary)

Admittedly, the “millennials vs. Boomers” topic is already a little old — and this is before millennials even start assuming the majority of roles in the workforce (right now, many of them are still in some form of school, or… Continue Reading