Posted on 06/23/2024 10:59:50 AM PDT by C19fan
Yep, my family has only been here 100 years.
As my daddy used to say,”The worse thing to ever happen in Florida was the invention of air conditioning”.
Let's go through this again. A few owners are selling undeveloped land to developers who are then breaking the land up into separate units and selling them to outsiders. The "Southerners" aren't selling their land to Californians at inflated prices. In fact, many of the locals can't sell their homes because the homes are older and now have increased taxes due to the reassessments.
Spin it any way you want but I hope you don't get caught in a similar situation that's repeating itself across the country.
Blockbusting used to be illegal but that's what this is.
They ruined my last two towns. They are ruining this one. And if they don’t they will send in the illegals.
Show up with cash and buy every scrap.of property sight unseen. Build the max allowable house. Wife starts a “art gallery” while husband weasels his way I. To town politics. Soon, “art walks”. Next. Roundabouts. Next, “green spaces” and public gardens no one uses. Then bike lanes every where. Then complaints a out lack of affordable housing for their housekeeper and yard guy illegly in the country when housing has increased 10 fold while no new industrial base has been allowed to grow.
I’m a Californian who just sold my home here and bought a house in the Arkansas River Valley. They have no need to fear my politics. I suspect that’s true of most folks moving from the Sacramento Valley area.
He chose poorly. Gallatin is a cesspool.
You are correct, the Conservative California I grew up in in the 1950s and '60s began to change with a huge influx of outsiders in the late '60s. I remember driving around with a rifle in my car openly displayed while buying cases of .22s at small convenience stores in the '60s to go rabbit hunting when I was in my teens, no ID needed.
There are more Republicans in California than any other state. That just shows how huge the population of CA is.
We left for Ark in 70
I do not understand how these internal migrants bring their political ideology.
Talk to them once is a lesson learned logic and country isn’t their field of choice.
I’m still trying to escape California but the economy makes it hard to do.
Don’t forget the increase in replacement housing. Can you get enough from your existing home to move?
“the dna chain from southerners to Irish and Scot’s Irish is pretty direct”
That’s so true. I’m not “from here”, but I find TN history fascinating.
A few years ago, I watched a show with a TN historian, I think focused on eastern TN. It doesn’t make sense to me, but I could swear that he said that TN used to have the most Jewish immigrants than anywhere else in America at that time in history. A couple hundred years ago, maybe. I would think New York.
Exactly. This is blockbusting on a national scale, even worse with a cascading effect.
Disrupt a Tier I market while developing land around Tier II markets - Tier I owners move into the Tier II / new Tier I market, forcing the existing owners out. Financiers make a bundle.
Develop land around Tier III markets. While the former owners in the Tier II / new Tier I market are forced out, they'll move into the new Tier III / new Tier II market, forcing the existing owners out. Financiers make a bundle.
Repeat as often and as far down into the markets that they can. It's a multi-trillion dollar scheme.
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The house I bought in Arkansas is half the price of the one I owned in CA and much nicer - so I’ll have coin in my pocket after the move... that’s how you make it work.
You made a good move
The key to avoiding that blight is to be somewhere that Californians or New Yorkers don't want to move to. I grew up in a rural area in east central Mississippi and now have 200 acres with an old farmhouse I remodeled. It's actually quite a beautiful area with rolling hills and endless nature but I think there are fewer people in the county now than when I was a kid 40 years ago, which suits me fine. The nearest decent sized town is 30 miles away and has all the support services you'd need, stores, restaurants, hospitals, etc. but lacks the big city variety that refugees from states like CA and NY crave. You're not going to find 75 michelin star restaurants there, broadway style shows, or unlimited high end shopping opportunities.
Just the name Mississippi keeps a lot of the libs out, it seems our reputation from 60 years ago makes us the #1 target of lefty hate nowadays. You can't go a day without reading an article on how backwards, racist, republican and ignorant we are & how it's downright dangerous for anyone other than a white person to set foot in the state. They always leave out the part that 40% of our population is black, I guess it's only dangerous if you're a black person from out of state. Anyway, we haven't become the target of the CA/NY refugee exodus so prices are dirt cheap (relatively) and we don't have to deal with stupid lefty policies nor infrastructure demands. It's almost like time has left us behind and I like it that way. If you go on any lefty discussion board like DU or Reddit we're always the first place the libs crap on when they get on a rant about places they'd NEVER live. It keeps them out so in my mind that's a huge win, plus I don't see myself having to watch an apartment complex being put up next to my place in my lifetime.
We've got almost twice as many people in the U.S. as there were when I was born, that's not going to slow down. As leftist governed states get more and more unlivable for the middle class the people who can afford to move are going to keep fleeing to more welcoming areas. Areas around large cities like Nashville, Knoxville, Atlanta, Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah, Birmingham etc., are going to get rapidly developed because New Yorkers and Californians demand access to big city things. If you want to stay away from them then you'd best be somewhere remote.
Lemme get this straight Yoits.
You say all these millions from CA have not been buying existing homes in other states at inflated prices? Is this what you're peddling?
Peddling?
If you bothered to read the article this thread is based on, you'd see that it's NEW CONSTRUCTION, not existing homes.
From the article:
"Developers built more than 1,300 apartment units, mainly in Gallatin, from 2020 to 2022."
"Here, horse and cow pastures give way to planned communities with bucolic names like Durham Farms and The Retreat at Norman Farm, which surround the main cities."
"Klein said the number of three-story apartment blocks going up around the city was 'ridiculous'.
"At the same time, the county lost 16,000 acres of farmland from 2011 to 2022..."
""Small Southern towns go to war with mass influx of wealthy Californians amid fears they are bringing lefty politics and rocketing house prices""
One more time, are you saying all these millions from CA have not been buying existing homes in other states at inflated prices?
Since you are dancing and dodging around the question, I'll answer for ya! The answer is OF COURSE THEY ARE....lol☺
Californians are so hated, yet all these millions of people in other states sell their homes at fat inflated prices to Californians. No?
So who are the glaring hypocrites here Yoits?
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