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Half the men in Seattle are never-married singles, census data shows

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118 points blondie9x | 2 comments | 13 Apr 25 14:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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Aurornis ◴[13 Apr 25 15:06 UTC] No.43673326[source]▶
My anecdote: We had offices in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle and Portland) at a previous company.

A lot of young people worked in those offices. It was basically a rite of passage for them to move just outside of Seattle around the time they were getting married.

This was so widely understood that it factored into decisions about where to locate office buildings and influences remote and hybrid policy. If you wanted to attract and retain more experienced employees then being in-office only in the middle of the city was risky.

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1. spicyusername ◴[13 Apr 25 15:21 UTC] No.43673427[source]▶
I mean, people who get married typically plan to have children next. At a minimum they tend to stop participating in many urban activities, night life, etc.

Having children in an urban area is more expensive and the schools tend to be worse.

I don't think this is a uniquely Seattle phenomenon. It's pretty common to emigrate from the city center to the suburbs when planning to start a family or otherwise "settle down".

In most cases it's just simple economics.

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2. ghaff ◴[13 Apr 25 15:32 UTC] No.43673512[source]▶
The finance people from my cohort from grad school moved to Manhattan and thereabouts to a large degree. 10 years later? I know one couple who still live there I think.