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Rural America is now experiencing 'disaster gentrification' as wealthy Covid-19 evacuees from the hotspot cities flock to the 'safety' of small towns in the flyover states - putting pressure on the local workforce and resources
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 2, 2020 | Ross Ibbetson

Posted on 04/02/2020 1:52:25 PM PDT by C19fan

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To: nascarnation

Agreed. We live in such a place. People used to just make fun of us for having such a cold climate with practically no one living here. I used to thank them for their compliments and asked them to tell all their friends back home what a shithole this place is.


41 posted on 04/02/2020 2:25:05 PM PDT by redfreedom
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To: HangnJudge

My husband and I are also assholes, and also quite like all of those points. However, we don’t want to burden TN with two more Illinoisans. We’re not assholes that big.

The Dakotas are looking nice about now. Maybe Idaho or Nebraska. Wyoming would be ideal, but land is out of our price range. After that, we’d need to build, which we can’t afford.

A girl can dream.


42 posted on 04/02/2020 2:25:27 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: C19fan

The map works with a more secure browser with some of the scripts enabled. They flew into the states, by the way, not over them. About a couple of weeks ago, most of the first cases in the middle Midwestern states came with travel to and from the northeastern states.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html


43 posted on 04/02/2020 2:26:39 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: HangnJudge

Yep.


44 posted on 04/02/2020 2:27:05 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: C19fan

Some of the numbers on that map are not up to date.


45 posted on 04/02/2020 2:27:18 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: HangnJudge
😁
46 posted on 04/02/2020 2:27:26 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: Osage Orange

Them F-9’ers ... yup, them’s the worst. We got nothing to look at here except Amish farms on the other side of the county. And trailer factories. And Mount Trashmore. I don’t expect to see any gentry out here.


47 posted on 04/02/2020 2:29:29 PM PDT by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

Bunch of summer immigrants from Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan clog the TVA lakes with jet skis, massive powerboats, and general distain for local customs, I am always glad for the post. Labor Day return to quiet.


48 posted on 04/02/2020 2:30:17 PM PDT by HangnJudge (China Lied, People died, Never Forget, this Decade's 9-11)
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To: ScottinVA

Yeah I almost got run over by some car with NY Plates. High dollar Mercedes. Guess not familiar with % pop here who carry.


49 posted on 04/02/2020 2:34:38 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: jonrick46

“Like rats off a sinking ship. The trouble is, these rats will carry the virus with them.”

Yes.


50 posted on 04/02/2020 2:35:39 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: C19fan

Send them back to their penthouses. “We don’t much care fer yer type ‘round here.”


51 posted on 04/02/2020 2:35:41 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: HangnJudge

And they’ll need all their immunizations. We have the WORST cooties!


52 posted on 04/02/2020 2:36:22 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: digger48
"The small towns don’t have the medical resources and the little stores don’t have the stock for everyone, let alone the rich hoarders"

Yes. They waited until the spread of the epidemic was obvious. Some of them brought pickup trucks to the stores and bought whole palettes (or two each for some) to take to their leased hideouts. Others said that they went to several stores in several towns to get the supplies (and further spread the disease). When buying or selling a property after this, one might advertise it oneself with focus to the right markets (e.g., nearby suburbanites wanting to retire to the country or buy a backup home in a rural area) and do it directly through title offices in order to bypass the local traitors. It's not that hard and saves money.

53 posted on 04/02/2020 2:36:39 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Osage Orange

“Not to mention the F-9 twisters....that roll thru here...”

An F-9?! That’s bad!

Not nearly as bad as an F-12 - but still pretty bad...


54 posted on 04/02/2020 2:41:41 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: C19fan

Albino Farm (movie)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albino_Farm


55 posted on 04/02/2020 2:42:06 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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We are talking about fellow AMERICAN citizens here right? I can’t believe we’re talking about roadblocks and restricting people from going to additional homes they own or preventing them from renting available residential properties. We’re talking about sheriffs violating people with out of county plates and similar stuff like that.

This is breathtaking. I wonder if this greatest nation in history isn’t already utterly destroyed.


56 posted on 04/02/2020 2:44:25 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I may just have tad to the anti-chamber of commerce dissertation
Perhaps slightly modified for gentler tastes


57 posted on 04/02/2020 2:45:54 PM PDT by HangnJudge (China Lied, People died, Never Forget, this Decade's 9-11)
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To: All

Don’t be fooled this is a propaganda piece designed to push a one size uniform policy in other words a shut down country. The message: “see you cannot have some parts of the country open because people will flock there”.


58 posted on 04/02/2020 2:47:17 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: C19fan

https://www.latterdayconservative.com/john-taylor/john-taylors-last-days-vision/


59 posted on 04/02/2020 2:50:24 PM PDT by BlueMoose
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To: gibsonguy

Thank you. And pushing us to hate one another ain’t a bad side benefit as far as they’re concerned.


60 posted on 04/02/2020 2:50:39 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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