Young adults in Gen Y are migrating from Industrial cities and states to Knowledge Cities.
This is just like 100 years ago, when young people left agrarian states like Mississippi and moved to industrial cities like Detroit and Milwaukee in search of better jobs and a better life.
Today young adults are leaving industrial states like Wisconsin and moving to Knowledge Cities, like Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Boston, Chicago and Minneapolis. The brain drain is painfully obvious to Wisconsin's leaders, although they are clueless about what to do about it (hint: trains, gay rights, urban neighborhoods, light rail, telework support, Internet access).
The in-migration is also obvious to Knowledge City leaders, says Paul Franklin of Portland, Oregon, one such recipient of all these smart talented young people. Painting: One of the paintings of Jacob Lawrence, who documented African Americans migration from the agrarian south to the industrial north 100 years ago.
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