Is KC a hit among millenials?

[Highlander]

What does "popular" mean? My guess is that there are some cities on that list like Denver, DC and Portland that millenials actually want to be - and some cities on the list like Houston that they end up in because they can get a job/career. I spend a lot of time with young scientists and engineers in Houston that are here in spite of their aversion to the city. Walk off campus with a BS in Petroleum Engineering and someone offers you 150 grand at 22 years old and even Houston can look tolerable. But it's not a "popular" place. I am surprised how well KC is ranked to be honest - I wonder if that's because KC has jobs or because it's just a cool place to live?

[flyingember]

KC is a cheap place to live and live big city. we keep hearing about needing subsidies because rental rates are so low downtown.
which is part of the reason downtown is fully occupied. which partially helps drive down rates across the city

cheap is popular with someone just out of school.

it's the reason for our strong arts scene, because it's no stereotype that art/theatre majors are in low income careers that need a low income city. and where else can you buy a crazy close in urban home for five figures and not need a car to get to work for a theatre job?
Omaha became known for music for much the same reason

[ResoluteKC]

Oh yeah.
Who else is buying hundreds of those goofy 'KC' hats from Baldwin?

Hahaha I am a millennial, but if I am representing KC, it is with a Royals hat!!

[IraGlacialis]

The only issue I'm seeing is that the same people I know who enthusiastically move to urban KC also will flat-out say that they don't plan on staying, but instead plan to move on to places like Austin or the coasts (usually the west) once they get enough money.
Granted, they are young and still relatively fresh out of college, so the mentality and priorities could shift as they age... hopefully not in a way that makes them pick suburbia.

Possibly ironically, the ones who moved into places like OP and Lees Summit have been more likely to stay long-term.

[pstokely]

The only issue I'm seeing is that the same people I know who enthusiastically move to urban KC also will flat-out say that they don't plan on staying, but instead plan to move on to places like Austin or the coasts (usually the west) once they get enough money.
Granted, they are young and still relatively fresh out of college, so the mentality and priorities could shift as they age... hopefully not in a way that makes them pick suburbia.

Possibly ironically, the ones who moved into places like OP and Lees Summit have been more likely to stay long-term.

maybe they'll move to those places and move back here when they find out about the cost of houses