For much of the last decade, cities across our region have watched their recent college graduates flee to cities like Phoenix. It what might be good news for our region, new census data show the recession has significantly changed where young people are moving. People, especially people in their early twenties, go where the jobs are. Thats why Michigan is so concerned about being the only state in the census to lose population And cities like Cleveland and Detroit have been fretting about brain drain to other areas. William Frey is a demographer with the Brookings Institution and the University of Michigan. Hes been looking at the new census data and says the great recession of the past few years has changed everything. Frey says sunbelt cities like Phoenix, Riverside, California, and several Florida metropolitan areas no longer have cheap mortgages and plentiful jobs: We basically have seen these bubble places pop, I guess you could say. So, with few opportunities elsewhere, many
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