The new 'cool' cities for Millennials

Interesting article at the Christian Science Monitor about millennials flocking to Rust Belt cities for their affordability and quirky charm.  Baltimore is featured prominently in this article. I drive through downtown mid afternoon every day on the way home and have been impressed by the increase of street life over the last decade.

 It was also far cheaper. Trading a squeezed apartment in Washington for a full house in funky Hampden, Horton says she has saved $600 to $700 a month in rent and utilities. But she also insists the price tag was only a small part of her decision. It was about finding a place that felt like somewhere: a community of which she could be a part, a place that she wouldn’t just step into to be carried along, like San Francisco or New York, but a place where her life and actions mattered. “I don’t think I had a true sense of place until I moved here,” she says.