whighlander
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Re: Filene's
"The change in demographics of Boston during the past decade might be a bit more complicated than the Mayor let on.
According to preliminary US Census Bureau numbers, total population rose 4.8% between 2000 and 2010, from 589,141 to 617,594, or about 28,000 people.
Under 5 stayed about the same, ages 5-14 (public school aged) dropped by ~13,000 while 15-19 (public school aged, first year of college) rose by ~6,000.
Ages 20-24 (college-aged) rose by ~18,000, 25-34 (college-aged, young professional) rose by ~3,300 while 35-44 (professional) dropped by ~9,000.
Ages 45-64 (boomers) rose by 22,000. Old people stayed constant."
This is totally consistent with the demographic dynamics for the Knowledge Age (KA),the re-structured Global Knowedge Economy (KE) and the Knowledge Industy (KI) of which the Hub is the HUB (Metro or Greater Boston including Worcester, Nashua, NH,etc. -- obviously centered on Boston / Cambridge):
I] the great Research U's (aka MIT, Haaahhhhvd, and the others) attract the best and brightest from all over the globe
II] After they graduate (often after post grad degrees and sometimes even post docs) they want to stay pretty much where they are -- same neighborhoods, same bars, same music clubs, etc. -- this is a sort of binding with the college kids in a perpetual youthiness
III] Then they get married and look around at the pathertic state of urban schools (desite the B's$) and they run as fast as possible to the suburbs and exurbs to raise their famailie -- returning to the city for art, food and sports
IV] Then they move-on to second or third careers oftern in another similar KI City either in the US or perhaps if they are originally from somewhere else -- then somewhere else
V] Meanwhile the higher-up positions at U's, Hospitls, KI Businsses, are filled by gloabal recruits who may or may not have ties to Boston/Cambridge as undergrads or grad stiudents -- these higher-ups often come with young familes here there is a branching point:
A) the junior higher-ups have the younger kids and the least money so they are likely to favor the outer and cheaper suburbs -- also there is connection to the place of employment - if they work out on \Rt-128, I-93, I-495 -- thenthey will keep house out there near by -- if they work at MIT, etc -- they favor the inner suburbs (e.g. Lexington, Newton)
B) the more senior people --e.g. dept heads, project managers, CEO, CSO -- they get the fat $ so they can afford to live where they woud like to -- they also have typically older families and more desire to be near the cullture -- that translates into inner suburbs or downtown with private schools if there are school age kids
VI] Finally the empty nesters either native or more commonly imigrants to the HUB during career phase [I,II or IIi] no longer want the big house and big lawn - so they migrate inward to condos perched on the water, etc. or they leave the area when they retire
Boston / Cambridge needs to accomodate the full cycle -- the big gap right now is the loss of Phase II, Phse III because of cost of resonable housing and of course the bad side of urbanity aka Crime and Krappy Schools
Fix those things and the HUB will become the unquestioned Capital of the KE
Sorr a bit off topic -- but this one of my personal Axes which I grind regularlly
"I'm glad we're cutting education when the number of school aged children increases.... " -- unfortuantely there is no strong correlation between the cost of education and the outcome
"The change in demographics of Boston during the past decade might be a bit more complicated than the Mayor let on.
According to preliminary US Census Bureau numbers, total population rose 4.8% between 2000 and 2010, from 589,141 to 617,594, or about 28,000 people.
Under 5 stayed about the same, ages 5-14 (public school aged) dropped by ~13,000 while 15-19 (public school aged, first year of college) rose by ~6,000.
Ages 20-24 (college-aged) rose by ~18,000, 25-34 (college-aged, young professional) rose by ~3,300 while 35-44 (professional) dropped by ~9,000.
Ages 45-64 (boomers) rose by 22,000. Old people stayed constant."
This is totally consistent with the demographic dynamics for the Knowledge Age (KA),the re-structured Global Knowedge Economy (KE) and the Knowledge Industy (KI) of which the Hub is the HUB (Metro or Greater Boston including Worcester, Nashua, NH,etc. -- obviously centered on Boston / Cambridge):
I] the great Research U's (aka MIT, Haaahhhhvd, and the others) attract the best and brightest from all over the globe
II] After they graduate (often after post grad degrees and sometimes even post docs) they want to stay pretty much where they are -- same neighborhoods, same bars, same music clubs, etc. -- this is a sort of binding with the college kids in a perpetual youthiness
III] Then they get married and look around at the pathertic state of urban schools (desite the B's$) and they run as fast as possible to the suburbs and exurbs to raise their famailie -- returning to the city for art, food and sports
IV] Then they move-on to second or third careers oftern in another similar KI City either in the US or perhaps if they are originally from somewhere else -- then somewhere else
V] Meanwhile the higher-up positions at U's, Hospitls, KI Businsses, are filled by gloabal recruits who may or may not have ties to Boston/Cambridge as undergrads or grad stiudents -- these higher-ups often come with young familes here there is a branching point:
A) the junior higher-ups have the younger kids and the least money so they are likely to favor the outer and cheaper suburbs -- also there is connection to the place of employment - if they work out on \Rt-128, I-93, I-495 -- thenthey will keep house out there near by -- if they work at MIT, etc -- they favor the inner suburbs (e.g. Lexington, Newton)
B) the more senior people --e.g. dept heads, project managers, CEO, CSO -- they get the fat $ so they can afford to live where they woud like to -- they also have typically older families and more desire to be near the cullture -- that translates into inner suburbs or downtown with private schools if there are school age kids
VI] Finally the empty nesters either native or more commonly imigrants to the HUB during career phase [I,II or IIi] no longer want the big house and big lawn - so they migrate inward to condos perched on the water, etc. or they leave the area when they retire
Boston / Cambridge needs to accomodate the full cycle -- the big gap right now is the loss of Phase II, Phse III because of cost of resonable housing and of course the bad side of urbanity aka Crime and Krappy Schools
Fix those things and the HUB will become the unquestioned Capital of the KE
Sorr a bit off topic -- but this one of my personal Axes which I grind regularlly
"I'm glad we're cutting education when the number of school aged children increases.... " -- unfortuantely there is no strong correlation between the cost of education and the outcome
