Actually, there is a running joke in the Seattle press about both Seattle Yuppies and Californians who move to eastern Washington and expect government services over there to be brought up to "their Yuppie standards."
It has gotten so bad that Chelan County has published a "Code of the West" to inform these folks among other things that in a range area, it is your responsibility to keep your neighbors cattle and sheep out of your property by your building a fence and that there are wild animals like coyotes, cougars and bears and you have some responsibility in protecting yourself and your pets from them. The County was tired of people complaining that now that these new arrivals had build their cabin at the end of the dirt road it was time for the County to pave it and that the Sheriff was taking too long to get to their house when they called about various animals getting in their yard.
Go figure.