Yes, it's just a wrong intuition sold as fact. Millenials have increasingly started to buy larger cars and moved from the big cities to the sunbelt and the suburbs.
It’s worth noting that it’s unclear whether or not this is a generational preference for the suburbs, or rather a result of a lack of suburban-equivalent amenities for families like safe parks, good, not-overcrowded schools, and available daycare options. Not to mention a lack of housing at the 2+ bedroom size.
It’s still a reversal of the ‘60s and ‘70s where the cities were being abandoned wholesale.
>The idea that everyone will be riding around in shared cars and live in the LA megalopolis is a tech industry fantasy.
It's also nowhere near anything TFA says.
What he says is that where people want to live is not very gaussianly (normal) distributed, but there is a peak for major urban centers (LA, NY, SF), and a large plateau of smaller places.
(https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/why-is-...)
The idea that everyone will be riding around in shared cars and live in the LA megalopolis is a tech industry fantasy.