Posts Tagged ‘college’

Richard Florida
by Richard Florida
Mon Aug 25th 2008 at 7:49am EDT

Following the Kids

Monday, August 25th, 2008

In Who’s Your City?, I wrote that the old trend of kids moving home after college was beginning to give way to a new one – boomer parents following their kids to more exciting cities. According to this New York Times report, it’s starting earlier than that. I’d heard about affluent parents buying condos for their kids to live in during college. But now, apparently, parents are following their kids to college and buying their own homes there. And to think: I went “away” to college (30 miles down the New Jersey Turnpike to Rutgers College) to get away from my parents’ ever-watchful eyes. I guess it’s less distance to travel to get the laundry done.