You are spot on. In the past 12 years, my town of Durango CO, has become unrecognizable...in 12 short years. I believe I'll be moving in the not so distant future. To where I don't know...I thought about Montana, but the "bankers and lawyers" are there already.....
FMCDH(BITS)
If you're a conservative, and like it when the cops run the rif-raf out of town instead of letting them hassle the public, think Arkansas, south (of course) of Little Rock. Not Hot Springs though, since it's becoming a haven for old hippies and hippie wannabees.
Ditto for Flagstaff, AZ. 15 years ago, sleepy little mountain town. Now, rampaging neo-California cloverleaf microcity. The only consolation is that my real estate will sell for about 8X what I paid for it.
Relocating to front range of Wyoming, myself.