Forget New York: Gen X is following boomers to retirement-friendly places like Florida

Forget New York: Gen X is following boomers to retirement-friendly places like Florida

Gen Xers are leaving behind big cities like New York.Getty; Rebecca Zisser/BIGen Xers are moving to retirement hot spots in Florida and Texas.Meanwhile, they're leaving behind big coastal cities in New York and California.Lower interest rates, remote work, and a strong economy might be driving Gen X migration patterns.Gen Xers are living like they're 20 years older — or at least moving to the favored locales of their retiree counterparts.An exclusive analysis of Census data for BI from the University of Virginia demographer Hamilton Lombard reveals the areas in the US that Gen Xers have left behind and where they went.!function(){“use strict”;window.addEventListener(“message”,(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[“datawrapper-height”]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(“iframe”);for(var t in a.data[“datawrapper-height”])for(var r=0;r