Gen Z is moving to big cities, Boomers out

Emily Bloch, photographer Heather Khalifa (Philadelphia Inquirer, inquirer.com, 2/29/23); Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Gen Z is moving to big cities — while older generations flee

Formal religion means very little to us.

Reports and Census data show that as older generations [Boomers, Greatest Gen, venerated elders] are trying to escape larger cities, Gen Z [Zoomers] is flocking to them.

Moving to a big city? "Slay." Or at least, that’s how Gen Z sees it. As older generations are trying to escape larger cities, Gen Z is flocking to them. Philadelphia is no exception.

It's better than DeSantis' Florida. Don't say gay.

A recent report shows that the country’s five largest cities — New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia — all experienced net increases in the number of Gen Z residents (ages 18 to 24) and net decreases for all other generations between Jan. 1, 2021, and Dec. 31, 2021.

An analysis of the Census Bureau 2021 American Community Survey by Today’s Homeowner revealed that Gen Z-ers (or Zoomers) are consistently breaking tradition with older generations’ migration patterns, targeting the areas their predecessors now deem too expensive or too crowded.

In Philadelphia, for example, census data estimates that 12,947 Gen Z movers settled. How Philadelphians feel about housing security and affordability:

Repairing all the homes in the Philly area would cost at least $3.7 billion. Black and Latino residents in the Philly region can get help buying their first home from new mortgage program.

• More: Gen Z moving to cities including Philadelphia, census data shows (inquirer.com)
• Gen Z bucks moving trends by heading to major cities as other generations leave (todayshomeowner.com)

Gen Z finding (or rejecting) religion

Austin Cross, AirTalk, 3/3/23 (LAist); Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Fail! I'm tired of this bullsh*t church service and that patriarch telling us what to believe.

Say a little prayer for Gen Z: How young folks are finding (or moving away from) religion

How to Know God (Patanjali)

For more than two weeks in February, Christian college Asbury University hosted a round-the-clock [Christian] religious revival, making headlines (washingtonpost.com) across the world and inspiring other colleges to host revivals of their own.

But wait a minute, aren’t Zoomers (Gen Z members) supposed to be less religious? While there is a general trend towards disaffiliation from religion, digging into the data paints a more complicated picture of a generation [an artificial demographic segmentation in the US by age] in flux.

How has living in a time of tremendous social change influenced Gen Z’s attitudes towards religion --organized or otherwise? And within this generation, how does religious feeling differ between certain groups?

What if I tone down the smiting, Sinners?

Joining in to answer these questions and more are Director Daniel A. Cox of the Survey Center on American Life and a senior fellow in polling and public opinion at the American Enterprise Institute, and Executive Director Richard Flory of the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

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