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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Fair enough. At this point, 250,000 Californians would have to move to Boise to get it to turn purple. Not happening. Maybe 100,000 in the next 10 years but not more than that.
it lies in “flyover county”
Flyover country indeed.
There is definitely an anti-California sentiment among the locals here. They see what happened to Oregon.
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“...and has worked fervently to attract new tech talent to Boise since moving there from the Bay Area in 2017.”
Bye bye Boise.
‘How many blacks in boise? Just askin’.’
I think leftists are getting away from more than just leftist policies.
The Californians will ruin it.
“Aren’t these the same liberals always complaining about sustainability, local neighborhood preservation, and food deserts?”
Buying up all the cool, old homes in established neighborhoods for $500k a copy IS sustainability and preservation.
And upscale stores and restaurants will flourish.
Along with residential plumbers, electricians, roofers etc.
City and county coffers will be flush, and the schools will be well funded.
What’s not to like?
They’re like cockroaches. Once they move to your city you can’t get rid of them.
They are putting 60 homes where 30 homes used to stand.
At double the price of the old homes.
Once all the old homes and established neighborhoods are bought up, they start building “walkable and bikeable” “communities” of high density row houses. These people are not Section 8 apartment dwellers turning properties into junk yards.
Local builders and all associated business/industry flourish.
Again, what’s not to like?
Well, they have a socialist mayor who supports everything that is bad for Idaho, so another words, Californians should feel right at home. Sad.
Other than Boise State football players?
Boise cold? No, it’s about 2300 feet, when it snows it melts by noon, and it’s very hot and dry during the summer.
Some people don’t like living in hive communities.
“Some people don’t like living in hive communities.”
True.
And they won’t buy any of those properties.
Many of them will move elsewhere after they cash out.
All those grannies in 1600ft turn of the century Craftsman bungalows, which they can no longer maintain, will most certainly sell at 10X what they paid 40 years ago.
There is no more favorable a circumstance that incentivizes one to move than what Boise is experiencing.
What’s not to like?
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The leftists they will elect and the policies that will ruin the place once they do.
Idaho is full of Mormons. A lot of those votes for Romney are religious loyalty.
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