Originally posted by wishfull thinker:
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Originally posted by PossibleZombie:
Why would anyone choose to live there?
Because it's beautiful, the weather is fabulous, family roots, a really cool job perhaps.
There are tons of people who live their lives out of the political sphere and to a large extent just don't care about the things that may drive you or me over the edge of reason.
I live in NW Washington, about 35 minutes by water from Seattle. For fifteen years displaced Californians have infiltrated my community and in every single example that comes to mind it was economics that drove them to the drizzly north. Not taxes or cost of daily living but the fact that they could sell their modest bungalow in San Luis Nabisco for enough dough to buy a water front mansion and have enough walking around money to live like a princling. And with that done, they commence to make NW politics look like, wait for it, San Luis Nabisco. Plus, as soon as they move in they cut down the 90 year old cedars so they can see the street.