Deb Diamond told me it’d be a damn shame if Philadelphia added 68,000 college-educated young people and remained what it has been: a poor city tortured by shadows.

Between 2000 and 2017, Philadelphia city’s population of bachelor’s degree-holding 25-to-34-year-olds surged by 115%, eclipsed only by Washington D.C. — and beating places like Seattle, Boston, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.

Way back in 2010, Campus Philly, the regional research and retention nonprofit that Diamond leads, noted that brain drain was no longer a problem for Philadelphia. For college students who took classes between 2010 and 2014, more than half stayed in Philadelphia, outperforming Boston for the last decade.

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