Posted on 07/23/2021 8:21:47 PM PDT by Drew68
Sasha Vermel had been sewing face masks locked down in her Oakland home for months during the pandemic when her hands gave out. She realized she couldn’t even open a door anymore.
It was the last straw. She’d been out of work as a designer and seamstress since COVID-19 hit, she’d been home-schooling two kids for months and the 2020 wildfire season had been relentless. She went to her husband and asked if he wanted to fly to Missoula, Montana for the weekend and look at houses.
That was in September 2020. By Thanksgiving, they had moved there, joining the thousands of people who have relocated from California to Montana in the past two years.
While the move was abrupt, Vermel and her husband had thought about leaving the Bay Area for years. She said they would often do “real estate tourism” on Zillow and browse houses in other cities they might move to. They considered Asheville, North Carolina, but there wasn’t much of a tech community there, something her husband was looking for. They also thought about Austin, but quickly realized it wasn’t quite as affordable as it once was, and it wasn’t going to be a big enough improvement in their living situation. They’d almost settled on Ashland, Oregon when the 2020 fire season hit, making the West Coast seem like a less desirable option.
Vermel is from Montana and still has lots of family there, so once they made the choice, the transition was fairly easy. They were able to sell their Oakland home and get a much larger property in Missoula, the second-largest city in the state. “Being able to sell a Bay Area home meant that we could have a lot more,” she said. “We went from 1,600 square feet with houses packed around us...
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They did this to Colorado, effectively flipping the state blue.
Maybe because the natives don't want them turning their state into a pile of police-defunding trash!
Then go the f___ back to California, then.
No. First my fellow Californians ruined Oregon, then Washington, THEN Colorado, then New Mexico, then Nevada. Now working on Arizona, Idaho, Montana
Otherwise California would eventually (maybe) flip back to red. Thus cancelling out Montana and Idaho going blue.
I'll be using a similar line once I move from Maryland to Florida.
Oh, boo-hoo. Go back, then, and take your CRT with you!
Not exactly new. We tried to move to Seattle in 96 and no one would even consider us because our previous address was in California. Finally got lucky an hour outside of town and in retrospect God was looking out for us.
People have been fleeing to the south and destroying it for decades.
Here's how: STOP VOTING DEMOCRAT!!!
Not me. Sometime after I get to Florida, the only Yankee left in me will be a fondness for cooler weather in the wintertime.
Snuggly spreading Leftism.
He He. Keep right on a moven you left wing freaks.
That certainly is a issue across the US. States that did right are now invaded by people fleeing crappy states and then showing up at the finish line to get the prize, when they never did anything for the state and people they arrive at.
at the time people in seattle well understood what would happen if more and more people from cali moved there.
(although seattle was a liberal hell hole long before that, I am pretty sure they did forced school integration by bussing of children around for hours in the 70s)
They can piss off. Californians are cancer.
Keep heading north - I hear Nunavut is nice...
Sickening.
The dregs are infecting the decent states.
Globalist redistribution...the hard way. It will soon be racist to live in an area with space...just a guess
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