(It's all part of the trend of young professionals prefering to live in a place with exicting culture than one with lower taxes.)

JazzO - It kinda defies the definition of "trend" when it's happening for so long... ask Thorstein Velben about "conspicuous consumption".

http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/Veblen/veblen_02_toc.html