Posted on 06/14/2021 1:01:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An Apple executive apparently used to fly his plane from Boise to Cupertino every weekday, a flight that took about an hour and a half.
That's about as long as it took Jeff Blickman — who recounted this piece of Boise tech lore — to commute to his job at Palo Alto every day when he lived in San Francisco.
“That sounds like a good life,” Blickman joked while chatting to SFGATE. He’s the director of investments and acquisitions for the Idaho investment firm Alturas and has worked fervently to attract new tech talent to Boise since moving there from the Bay Area in 2017.
Nearly half of Boise’s annual net migration from 2014 to 2018 came from California. That’s a testament to multiple things: California’s relative proximity to Boise, Boise’s affordability and, perhaps most of all, the growing appeal that Boise has among the tech class.
Boise is not quite a nascent tech hot spot the way, say, Austin or Miami is. Boise lacks the glut of brand-name figures moving in the way Austin does, nor does it have an aggressive government-sponsored campaign on par with Miami. But its proponents say what those cities (and the Bay Area) lack is the easy charm ingrained in Boise and its inhabitants.
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How many blacks in boise? Just askin’.
Boise: soon to be a place to have been from
The locals can tell the California hipsters it was much cooler before they arrived.
And it won’t take many to tip a deep red state to blue. Yet another red state polluted
One Word: C A L I F O R N I C A T I O N
I would like to think all the people moving from say, California to Boise or any other similar situation or conservatives haven’t had enough of the liberal hellholes the states have become and will continue to vote for the conservative candidate, but sadly, that is not necessarily the case.
>>It also helps that Boise is much safer than the Bay Area, he says, to the point where people leave their doors unlocked. The worst kind of crime, he says, is petty theft “if you leave your car doors unlocked.”
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>>“It’s that kind of Pleasantville-y type of safety that we feel here.”
That heart of America that they’d dismissed for decades because it lies in “flyover county”
But any community is only 1 Soros DA away from all of that changing.
There goes Idaho.......
The eastern counties of Oregon will have no sane state to join.
I was stationed at Mtn. Home AFB, ID from 1979-81. Boise was the liberal mecca of the state even back then. Combination of being the State Capitol and having Boise State University.
Idaho is a beautiful state, but Boise is just another Democrat city.
More than ideal…
And the Californication of Idaho begins...
>>According to Zillow, the average cost of a home at the end of May rose to $472,634 — a more than 33% increase from the year before, and nearly double the average price of a house in 2016.
Aren’t these the same liberals always complaining about sustainability, local neighborhood preservation, and food deserts?
>>“Rich hypercapitalist tech right-wing scumf-—s will continue moving their companies/families out here in droves as the lower classes are priced out.”
I see there are low information Leftists in Idaho as well.
People who don’t know WHO is Big Tech or what their politics are.
Boise is way too cold so it won’t become a blue states anytime soon.
This is why coexisting with leftists will never work. They will ALWAYS move to redder, predominantly white areas to get away from the liberal policies and “diversity” they voted for. It’s also why secession will never work if you don’t have an airtight border and CHOOSE who gets to come in. Then again, countries can be destroyed from within as we are seeing, so perhaps it’s all fruitless.
Trump got 63% in 2020. In 2012, Romney had 64%. So this thread is much ado about nothing.
Damn! I’d like to buy you a beer! You’re to the Right of me.
We’re going to pay for this woman mayor, though.
“Resentment” and $5.75 will get you a no soy, fat free milk mocha latte at Starbucks in Boise. It’s called the free market and freedom of movement.
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