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by cryoshon 3959 days ago
Agreed as far as stealing others productivity goes.

There's also another explanation: millenials prefer to live in cities, where there is a higher density of jobs and similar people. Millenials grew up in the suburbs in large numbers, and are migrating to the city as soon as they can afford it comfortably. Affording city rent comfortably means that there's room for the rent to rise, so it does, until they can't find someone to pay.

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>millenials prefer to live in cities, where there is a higher density of jobs and similar people

lets focus on something else here too...

A millennial is very likely to be working in an job that high speed internet service or connectivity in some manner. It is much more expensive or impossible to get these in rural areas. For example 'digital media worker' > 'large files' > 'good internet service' > 'urban area'. If you've ever been out in the country and had 1.5Mbit down 768Kbit up DSL and tried to work on it, it's extremely frustrating. Even though the rents much cheaper, you'll go broke trying to live there.