Millennials and their older business counterparts agree on the American Dream, but the younger generation of entrepreneurs appears to deviate from their elders in a number of key ways.

The poll of a group of 101 “influential millennials” by Forbes finds that young business leaders aspire to a more-urban existence than their predecessors. When asked where they see themselves living in the next five years, only 18 percent said the suburbs and 3 percent said a rural area. Seventy-nine percent plan to be city-dwellers.

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