America’s Big City Brain Drain

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🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In recent years, well-paid and college-educated Americans have shed major cities like New York, San Francisco and Washington for places like Philadelphia or Birmingham, Ala. Emily Badger, who writes about cities and urban policy for The Upshot at The New York Times, explains what is driving the change, and what it means for the future of the American city. Guest: Emily Badger, a cities and urban policy correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	Hi, is this Lara?
0:02.0	Yeah, that's a she.
0:03.0	Hi, Lara.
0:04.0	This is Alex Stern from The New York Times.
0:07.0	How's it going?
0:08.0	Hey, going pretty good.
0:09.0	How about you?
0:10.0	Good.
0:11.0	My name is Bloren Newman.
0:12.0	I am 33 years old and I was born and raised in Brooklyn.
0:24.0	I moved back to New York after graduating from college.
0:29.0	And I moved in with my mom because I could not afford even to have roommates in an apartment.
0:36.0	Or I guess I could have afforded it, but it was like I had this goal already of wanting to open a bar restaurant.
0:42.0	And I knew that I had to be saving money.
0:47.0	I was being paid $35,000 a year in 2012 and I was working 90 hours a week.
0:56.0	I didn't want to give up on this dream.
0:58.0	But every time I felt like my goal is to hit this amount saved.
1:01.0	Every time I hit it, I would then check real estate and other expenses of businesses and every cost would have increased.
1:09.0	So much that it was like I wasn't moving forward with the amount I was saving.
1:13.0	Like I was keeping up with inflation and that was it.
1:23.0	I was getting involved in bartender events that brought people in from around the country and encouraged networking.
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