Friend posted:

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To those who have recently moved here. You moved here to better your life. Made a home for your children free from where you came. You came here to escape the city streets, the high costs of California, Washington, Oregon. The crime and riots in NY IL MN MD. Or maybe to just have a slice of the beach.

It all started with a Google search. "Cheap places to live on the coast" "small coastal towns" "where can I move -(anywhere but California)" and here we are. Welcome to what used to be a small town. If anyone says they never thought it would be this way, they are being ignorant or coy. It's a wonderful place and you can never hide that. We hope you help it flourish.

You brought your high paying jobs with you.
Your 50k+ cars.
Your endless budget for housing.
Your need to eat out.
Your need for daycare.
Your inheritance.
Your money.
We have noticed.

Some of you guys have the freedom to do anything. And to change the world. But that's far from the truth.

Where you are welcome here, remember, many were here before, and while your standards of living have gone up.

**Ours have went down**

Meals aren't cheap anymore.
Daycare if you can find it, costs 50% more.
Rental housing is no longer affordable.
Houses cost 75k+ more.
Want a dock slip? Those have tripled.
Land to build when you have more money? That now costs as much as a house
Can you even get a dollar beer anymore?

I challenge everyone. Local or not. Long time resident or not, this:

If the world has been good to you, give back. Understand that your life is better now, and now the lives of those you moved upon have become more difficult and dreams less obtainable.

Consider sponsoring a kid in the little buddy program.
Sponsor a family. Crazy how much a used washer dryer and couch can change someone's life.
Call the ------ volunteer center. They always looking.
Feed the homeless.
Walk the lake with a trash bag and fill it up.
Walk anywhere.
Habitat for humanity.
Call ANY church.
I'm sure everyone has great suggestions also.

Do something besides eat up all the avocado toast in town. (Thanks for bringing that here by the way)

Then I also challenge you. Stop posting and talking about your lavish life. The poor are watching. It hurts to watch others thrive, even though what you are doing is seemingly normal to you.

Help others.

Your children are watching. Don't advertise your good deeds. It robs the spirit of doing good. And shames those who cannot. Your neighbors, children, and friends will notice, and eventually will want in on what drives your true happiness; helping others.

Meme Poker Party posted:

What lol. It's a horseshit post. The problems listed are reasonable. High cost of living, absurd income and wealth disparities, clown show housing. These are real issues. The problem is this doofus just dumps it on the idea of the California Transplant Hordes like an idiot. They may as well invoke Biden's Border Crisis. They are listing real problems but blaming it on an imaginary horde of outsiders ruining it all. If only the town was still just the Good Ole Boys, land would be cheap, housing easy to find, and the football men would never have kneeled.

That's why it's a dumbass post. It's conveniently blaming supposed outsiders for all life's ills.

~Coxy posted:

Some of our towns are starting to ban cats from roaming.
If you want to have an outside cat you have to enclose your yard or build a cat run.

Bargearse posted:

I bet the boomer tantrums are spectacular.

JackBandit posted:

My major problem with that post and the complaints about places near California is that you don’t have any more right to what happens to a city or town just because you already live there. If people find affordable housing where you are, they have the right to move there, it’s not like they have to get your approval before they can go. There are related problems that really do suck like displacement from gentrification and corporate real estate and giant luxury apartment complexes, and low density housing. But that post is just FYGM boomer.txt

therobit posted:

Do you live anywhere in proximity to California? Because home prices skyrocketing when your town gets popular with transplants is a huge issue out here. I live in a suburb of Portland and housing prices have tripled in the last 8 years, largely due to all the people that moved here from cities with a higher cost of living. Our coastal towns have had an even greater increase. Bend, Oregon is the fastest growing city in the country right now and locals basically can’t afford it if they didn’t already own property there.

Neito posted:

It reminds me heavily of a few years ago when some boughie neighborhood made the news because its residents were complaining about Google Maps because it turned out their formerly-quiet neighborhood was the shortest path between two destinations. Like, it wasn't even "our neighborhood has become unlivable" IIRC, it was just "There are cars outside sometimes now" type poo poo.

JackBandit posted:

My major problem with that post and the complaints about places near California is that you don’t have any more right to what happens to a city or town just because you already live there. If people find affordable housing where you are, they have the right to move there, it’s not like they have to get your approval before they can go. There are related problems that really do suck like displacement from gentrification and corporate real estate and giant luxury apartment complexes, and low density housing. But that post is just FYGM boomer.txt

JackBandit posted:

My major problem with that post and the complaints about places near California is that you don’t have any more right to what happens to a city or town just because you already live there. If people find affordable housing where you are, they have the right to move there, it’s not like they have to get your approval before they can go. There are related problems that really do suck like displacement from gentrification and corporate real estate and giant luxury apartment complexes, and low density housing. But that post is just FYGM boomer.txt

Pekinduck posted:

Yeah the problem is very real but blaming it on the newcomers is xenophobic bullshit. You have the right to live anywhere you want in your own drat country.

Tarkus posted:

I agree with you, however, where do you stand on neighborhood gentrification? That's what this is.

therobit posted:

Do you live anywhere in proximity to California? Because home prices skyrocketing when your town gets popular with transplants is a huge issue out here. I live in a suburb of Portland and housing prices have tripled in the last 8 years, largely due to all the people that moved here from cities with a higher cost of living. Our coastal towns have had an even greater increase. Bend, Oregon is the fastest growing city in the country right now and locals basically can’t afford it if they didn’t already own property there.

Neito posted:

It reminds me heavily of a few years ago when some boughie neighborhood made the news because its residents were complaining about Google Maps because it turned out their formerly-quiet neighborhood was the shortest path between two destinations. Like, it wasn't even "our neighborhood has become unlivable" IIRC, it was just "There are cars outside sometimes now" type poo poo.

Sydin posted:

The primary problem with California housing prices is that decades ago we passed a ballot proposition that functionally freezes your property tax evaluation at whatever it was at the time you purchased the property. This artificially inflates property values (among many other terrible side-effects) which means that even if you are not a high-income household owning property is basically a golden ticket you can cash out at any time for a ludicrous sum of money, which you can turn around and take to another state.

Photux posted:

That sort of thing can be a real problem. For a while, I had a weekly drive through a semi-rural area on a highway that often jammed up, and one time google maps offered an alternate route to save some time. I took it, and found myself stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic crawling along a residential street (definitely not a bougie area). The locals had signs in their yard saying "stay on the highway" and "oak street is for locals" and I couldn't blame them at all. Local streets became entirely unusable, and it didn't even save highway users any time.

Meme Poker Party posted:

What lol. It's a horseshit post. The problems listed are reasonable. High cost of living, absurd income and wealth disparities, clown show housing. These are real issues. The problem is this doofus just dumps it on the idea of the California Transplant Hordes like an idiot. They may as well invoke Biden's Border Crisis. They are listing real problems but blaming it on an imaginary horde of outsiders ruining it all. If only the town was still just the Good Ole Boys, land would be cheap, housing easy to find, and the football men would never have kneeled.

That's why it's a dumbass post. It's conveniently blaming supposed outsiders for all life's ills.

Pekinduck posted:

Yeah the problem is very real but blaming it on the newcomers is xenophobic bullshit. You have the right to live anywhere you want in your own drat country.

Traxis posted:

therobit posted:

Because clearly the race of the chef makes a ton of difference how the food tastes. That’s why you never see Mexican cooks in the back of a restaurant unless it’s Mexican food.

DarkSoulsTantrum posted:

What’s even weirder was the first person to flat out call him out as racist was the guy who constantly posts BACK THE BLUE rants.

Neito posted:

"Just let me let my invasive nonnative predator run wild, like the good old days!" *chugs a gallon of lead juice and accidentally impales himself with a Lawn Jart.*

you broke my grill posted:

dae hate translplants

quote:

To those who have recently moved here. You moved here to better your life. Made a home for your children free from where you came. You came here to escape the city streets, the high costs of California, Washington, Oregon. The crime and riots in NY IL MN MD. Or maybe to just have a slice of the beach.

It all started with a Google search. "Cheap places to live on the coast" "small coastal towns" "where can I move -(anywhere but California)" and here we are. Welcome to what used to be a small town. If anyone says they never thought it would be this way, they are being ignorant or coy. It's a wonderful place and you can never hide that. We hope you help it flourish.

CaptainSarcastic posted:

My question is where the gently caress are they posting from? Not OR, WA, CA, NY, IL, MN, or MD. Somewhere on the mid-Atlantic or Gulf coasts, or Alaska, or where?

therobit posted:

Some people like having yards.