{"id":67,"date":"2006-11-25T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T18:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/25\/the-hip-and-the-square\/"},"modified":"2006-11-25T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T18:30:02","slug":"the-hip-and-the-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/outreach\/community\/the-hip-and-the-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Young and Hip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"young folk\" title=\"young folk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog_images\/hipsters.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to an article in the NYT, cities are now competing for hipness in an attempt to lure young transplants. The reasons? &#8220;Baby boomers are retiring and the number of young adults is declining. By 2012, the work force will be losing more than two workers for every one it gains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to William H. Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153These are rare and desirable people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It seems that once people turn thirty-five, they are much less likely to relocate.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study based on census figures, cities winning the hipness battle are Atlanta, San Francisco, Denver, Portland, and Austin. Ranking among the squares: Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Does that sound right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the NYT, cities are now competing for hipness in an attempt to lure young transplants. The reasons? &#8220;Baby boomers are retiring and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}