Bay Area Expats Are Driving Up Home Prices From Boise To Reno The Cali zombie hoard is lapping at our feet! Where are Legend, Omega Man, and The Last Man on Earth when we need them? This woman is of the leftist ilk: "Even in places like deep-red Idaho, these transplants are beginning to remake the terrain in their own image, as food co-ops and Women's Marches starting to populate the landscape. Businesses are rushing to Boise to meet every desire of the newly arrived Cali transplants. D’Agostino, the Bay Area transplant, isn’t ashamed of her progressive views and is finding her place: at the natural foods co-op downtown, the Boise’s Women’s March last year, and with the volunteer group she founded to collect unused food for the needy. But it was also good to get out of her comfort zone, she says. “I can’t remember a time when it’s ever been this divided, so the fact that I can have some interaction with people who might not have exactly the same beliefs as me, that’s fine,” she says. “As long as we can respect each other.” It’s not new for politics to factor into moving decisions—it’s just that in the age of Trump, tensions get magnified. “What’s different now is how far apart the parties are ideologically,” says Matt Lassiter, a professor of history at the University of Michigan. Politics aside, businesses are rushing into Boise to fill every West Coast craving. In nearby Eagle, the new Renovare gated community is selling 1,900- to 4,000-square-foot homes with floor-to-ceiling glass and “wine walls” that start at $650,000—a bargain by California standards, says sales agent Nik Buich. About half of buyers are from out of state, he says." But few people are independent and when they move to a new place, they slowly adopt the ways and ideas of the new place. She may never become a red conservative but will soon become a purple with some hotspot red beliefs. Those beliefs will be women's rights and abortion, not school board, and high-speed rail. I think this guy is more representative of the people moving out of California although they are less visible because they have less money than do the hard left progressives moving from San Fran or San Jose: "John Del Rio, a real estate agent sporting a beard, baseball cap, and sunglasses, just registered moving2idaho.com, where he’s planning to blog about all the things that make his new home great. He left Northern California two years ago with his wife in search of a place with less crime, lighter regulation, and more open space. Del Rio, a conservative with a libertarian bent, is reassured to see average people walking through Walmart with handguns in their holsters. In Idaho, he says, "nobody even flinches.'" But who knows? We will find out if Cali has some sort of virus which permanently infects the minds of its expats. If it does, we need a vaccine. Notice how in the map, Oregon receives fewer Californians than other states. This is because our Urban growth boundary is statewide and has driven up housing cost in most communities to above the cost of surrounding states except for a few urban areas like Seattle. While the Oregon housing costs are not as high as California's, they are high enough to act as a detractor for many Californians who are not moving from the super high housing cost coastal enclaves.
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