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South Florida has long been branded as a place of opportunity. But for many members of Generation Z who were born and raised here, the future they imagined is no longer in South Florida \u2014 it\u2019s elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think everyone between 20 and early 20s has a great urge to just kind of get out of the house, move and live on their own,\u201d said 25\u2011year\u2011old Jared Infantolino.<\/p>\n

Jared grew up in Miami, went to school in his hometown and assumed adulthood would unfold in the city that raised him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to get out and live on my own. The problem is, I was talking to one of my other friends at the time and very quickly realized I can\u2019t \u2014 we can\u2019t \u2014 live on our own here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jared is one of more than 340,000 Miami\u2011Dade County residents between the ages of 20 and 29. Some are part of a growing trend: being raised in Miami\u2011Dade and then leaving in search of a more attainable future.<\/p>\n

A survey of Miami residents ages 18 to 34 found that more than 51% believe they will likely leave the area.<\/p>\n

The reasons vary.<\/p>\n

For Jared, it comes down to the cost of living.<\/p>\n

He works as an EMT and spent part of this year in Tallahassee, where he earned $18 to $20 an hour. There, he paid $800 a month for a studio apartment and still had money left over.<\/p>\n

In Miami, he said, that\u2019s impossible.<\/p>\n

\u201cRent for a studio is $1,200 or $1,300 a month, and we barely scratch the surface with $3,000 a month,\u201d Jared said. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s that I want to go do things, but I can\u2019t even afford to live. I need to get out of here and find somewhere I can afford to live.\u201d<\/p>\n

He is now hoping to change career paths and has enrolled in the military, where housing is covered and he hopes to save money.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love living down here, and I want to stay down here. But the problem is, I can\u2019t afford to. And I know a lot of people feel the same,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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One of those people is 24\u2011year\u2011old Alejandro Malo. He moved to Baltimore to attend law school. For him, transit and traffic were major motivators.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to have a job in Homestead, and I lived in Miami, in Sweetwater,\u201d he said. \u201cI would take the bus up and down, and it would be two hours and 30 minutes. I would get home at 10 p.m. only to wake up at 6 a.m. and do the same bus trip to go back to work. It was really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Alejandro lives across the street from campus and pays less for public transportation, which gets him where he needs to go in under 10 minutes. He says it eases the financial strain he felt after college, when he earned about $14 an hour working at a Miami law office.<\/p>\n

It was during that time, he said, that he realized Gen Z workers often have to \u201cjump\u201d rather than climb the ladder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is when you have to leave your place of employment to go to another place of employment that pays a higher rate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if you\u2019re in Miami and you\u2019re stuck in a position that you don\u2019t want to be in, you don\u2019t climb up \u2014 you have to find another job. And if there is no other job because the economy is not there for you, then you\u2019re not going to climb out of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alejandro believes Miami wasn\u2019t designed for young people, but for businesses and residents ages 50 to 59 \u2014 the county\u2019s largest age group, with more than 400,000 people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so the older people come. They come from good money, they made their money elsewhere and they go to Florida,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The trend of younger generations leaving South Florida could have consequences. Losing educated and skilled workers may affect not only the region\u2019s talent pool, but also the number of people who can afford to live here.<\/p>\n

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