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To: TheWriterTX

You’re probably better off just saying, “I know one when I hear ‘em.”

The problem you refer to is happening everywhere.

I was in Idaho in the mid-1980’s and liked it.
They’d JUST got to a million Statewide population; Boise had rural farm communities just a few miles out of the city.

By 2005 those rural communities were striving to be more like California suburbs. The farm-fringe town of Eagle was running full-page color real estate ads touting itself as “The Napa Valley of Idaho” complete with photos of gated community entrances with manicured lawns, fresh-planted annual flowers, river-rock walls, and chrome script lettering.

My friends who still live locally have come to hate, Hate, HATE Californians with a raging, purple passion; they shat in the nest out West, felt compelled to flee, and immediately needed to “be involved” in all the local boards and committees. “Getting involved” is what liberals call it. “Being invasive busybodies” is what normal, well-adjusted people call it.

So, they “got involved,” to the detriment of all, fouling the new nest just like they ruined the old one.

Lather.
Rinse.
Repeat.

It’s not all Californians; lotta good Conservative folks just can’t afford to bail outta this State until they retire, or they’ve got family ties keeping them anchored (guilty on all counts, here). But it’d be a matter of self-preservation for destination States to bar transplants from any local political involvement for at least five years; no school board, city council, county board, PTA — nothing for five years.


38 posted on 01/09/2022 1:28:23 AM PST by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: HKMk23

If you look at my post 29, you will see I indicated it was a mindset, not a locale. You are correct. They are from all over, in every state, and screwing things up.


43 posted on 01/09/2022 2:39:25 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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