39.4% of Americans have at least a 2-year college degree.

Of the 25 most populous metropolitan areas (not limited to the city limits), only 15 surpass that percentage by more than 1%.

They are (in order of percentage, high-low):

1. DC
2. Boston
3. Oakland-San Francisco
4. Minneapolis
5. Seattle
6. Denver
7. New York
8. Baltimore
9. Pittsburgh
10. San Diego
11. Portland
12. Chicago
13. Atlanta
14. Philadelphia
15. St. Louis

Coincidentally, every one of these cities exceeds the mean in inter-city US migration (moving from one US city to another).

When you eliminate people who have attended school-based arts performances and exhibitions in which they have a significantly personal connection to the art (a child, a neighbor, etc.), fewer than 50% of Americans have paid to experience the arts.

Does that mean that we give up on the arts in other metropolitan areas? Or might the arts serve as an attractor for highly-educated migrants?