Best US cities for Gen Z-and what it's like to live there during COVID-19 Ellen Dewitt, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail 1of17 Best US cities for Gen Z—and what it's like to live there during COVID-19 COVID-19 has spared no generation, but has put a unique burden on Gen-Zers—the roughly 67 million Americans born between 1997 and 2012—who are just entering the workforce, starting college, or graduating high school amid an international pandemic. Despite the coronavirus grinding everyday life as we know it to a halt, the Gen Z demographic is still charting its courses as these young adults choose cities to start building their lives, look for education and job opportunities, and enter into adulthood. To that end, certain American cities do better than others at courting budding entrepreneurs, advocates, artists, and experts in tech.