Years after arriving in droves during the pandemic, young adults’ love for Miami may be souring. That’s what a new study suggests, finding more than half of young adults in Miami saying they’re likely to move away.
Global design firm Gensler looked at the top 27 metros in the U.S. and surveyed about 2,200 childless residents between the ages of 18 and 34 between July and November 2024. The survey is part of the company’s broader research on what makes cities magnetic, and it turns out high costs of living, proximity to climate perils, and traffic are apparently off-putting to young adults searching for a metro to settle; go figure.
The survey found Miami had the third-highest percentage (51.8 percent) of respondents who said they’re considering leaving South Florida; only Baltimore (61.6 percent) and Charlotte (58.3 percent) ranked higher. The same question was posed to three other categories of adults found that those 55 and older were the least likely to move out of the 305 (about 25 percent), those 35-54 with no children were the second least likely (about 38 percent), and about 47 percent of adults with children said they were likely to move…