"In the years just after college my friends and I assumed we were living a brief transition period between the families that brought us into the world and the families that we expected to start for ourselves. We picked hip, low-rent neighborhoods in exciting cities as transfer points, where, after getting off the college bus, we waited for the marriage train to arrive. After five years passed we settled in a little. We bought new couches and painted our apartments. Now that more than a decade has gone by, we’ve begun to wonder, what’s the holdup?"



That's the beginning of a train of thought about the way young people now live their lives. Journalist Ethan Watters identifies and defines the term "Urban Tribes" on his website and i read his article on the NYTimes and found it to be quite poignant and interesting and maybe...fearfully...gloriously...applicable?