I must be ahead the curve, or refusing to "grow up". I was born in 1971 which may or may not qualify me for "Gen X" and living in a revitalized urban area is the best thing ever to me.
Of course I have also never learnt to drive despite now being 40. I can NOT thrive in a suburb. It also helps that I found a damn nice area to live.
But honestly I think this owes as much to deliberate urban planning efforts in the 80s/90s to "revitalize downtown" as it does to anything GenY wants. It is now easy and fun to live in the city again, instead of it being a desperate scary place; all the poor people now largely live way the fuck out in the burbs and have nightmare commutes to their shitty city jobs.
Of course I have also never learnt to drive despite now being 40. I can NOT thrive in a suburb. It also helps that I found a damn nice area to live.
But honestly I think this owes as much to deliberate urban planning efforts in the 80s/90s to "revitalize downtown" as it does to anything GenY wants. It is now easy and fun to live in the city again, instead of it being a desperate scary place; all the poor people now largely live way the fuck out in the burbs and have nightmare commutes to their shitty city jobs.