Posted on 06/23/2024 10:59:50 AM PDT by C19fan
When California native David Klein moved to the quiet city of Gallatin, Tennessee, 25 years ago, he did so to escape the chaos of West Coast urbanization.
Now, he says, it feels like it is 'chasing' him.
Since the pandemic, an influx of outsiders from the Golden State and elsewhere have turned a once tranquil community into an overcrowded 'hell'.
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Oregon part deux.
There is nothing that is forcing the property owners in these rural areas to sell.
It’s snobbery. If they vote like those awful deplorables, they might be mistaken for one, and then what would their peer group think?
Apparently money talks , and money is more important than the political situation, or resentments about Californians moving into their towns.
Not so in Florida.
Five years ago the rodents held a 250k lead in voter registrations. Now Republicans hold a 400k lead
Almost all new residents came to be Republicans
In other words, the same people that are whining about the influx of new residents, are selling their property to new residents.
Ping
*** ‘I am not anti-growth. I just want the growth to pay for itself. The infrastructure has barely changed.’
Commissioner and influential member of the Constitutional Republicans group Jeremy Mansfield told DailyMail.com that Sumner County was ‘caught in a vicious cycle that enables developers to exert significant influence on the political and economic landscape, perpetuating a cycle of overdevelopment, increased taxation, and land exploitation for their own gain’.***
We have the same problem here in central Indiana. If I wanted to live in Indianapolis or one of its suburbs, I would’ve moved there. Now with the influx of illegals to contend with, our little town is growing too fast, and the infrastructure isn’t there to keep up with the growth.
I contend that this is what happened to the California of my childhood. California was a marvelous place to live as I was growing-up. That is, until the sixties and the “Summer of Love,” when crazies from all over the United States came to California looking for “free-love” and drugs (and never left)! The disease has spread over the years.
American refugees fleeing their failed states to the south and other red areas. Migration always destroys.
What happened here is that one farmer with a good bit of acreage died. He left it all to his only nephew, who lives a state away and didn’t want to deal with it, so sold it to a developer during lockdowns. It’s turned into a “planned” community. Problem is, we don’t have any of the infrastructure to address a 25% instant growth. Our roads, sewers, post office, schools, etc can’t absorb this kind of growth so quickly. We have one main road, with about 4 or 5 traffic lights. It’s bumper to bumper both east and west bound now, at all hours of the day.
The approval for this happened when the town council meetings were held on Zoom. The people who this affected showed up in force when they finally let us start having meetings in person. It was too late by then. Approval by the council had already happened when they didn’t give the folks a voice. Every single person on the town council who voted for the new developer community has been ousted. Unfortunately, too little, too late.
This means our taxes will go up, to support new schools or expansion of facilities. I don’t think we can turn back the clock, but can we slow it down? I hope so.
None of the complaints have anything to do with California politics. They are all about growth. The problem here seems to be the local government is allowing unrestricted growth, and developers are jumping in to capitalize. But building high density housing WILL bring softer, less independent people who WILL be more left leaning than the more independent and conservative folks who reside in low density or rural housing.
Most likely they are being forced out by rising property taxes and hazard insurance. When someone builds a new expensive house it is not only that house that gets assessed the surrounding properties/homes will also probably get new assessments. This is because now the whole area not just the new residence(s) are considered improved. Along with that “improved” values comes the associated services which the town or county believes are now essential to attracting more high value real estate. Things like sidewalks or streetlights even parks.
This happened to a friend of the family. Her property taxes tripled because newer homes in her neighborhood meant the whole area had increased assessments.
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i couldnt agree more !
blaming california for all ills is pure projection of the 60’s freud mao marx loving progs.
my family fled calif in 69 to oregon to escape the 60’s freaks that infested the state from the eastern colleges.
foe example, we lived about 11 miles from this freak at one time
Charles Manson (born November 12, 1934, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S
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“The people who this affected showed up in force when they finally let us start having meetings in person. It was too late by then. Approval by the council had already happened when they didn’t give the folks a voice.”
Why do you want to control what a private property owner does with their land?
UH..THEY ARE moving south!
It would not surprise me if the local government and developers use the tactic of declaring older/built out areas as blighted. This can lead to the government using eminent domain powers to make owners sell out and the developer move in. But wait, there’s more. Then the developer asks for tax breaks because they will be improving a blighted area. Usually such agreements involve something like promises of jobs for locals or donation of parkland or infrastructure improvements. Still the developer and the local government comes out ahead.
Actually the number is almost 1 Million more registered Republicans as of a week ago here in FL. FL had a wake-up call after almost election the Black Gilligan from Tallahassee!
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