California retirees flocking to small Idaho town, prompting concerns about 'liberal baggage': 'Wait a minute'
Over 90,000 California pension fund members receive their payments outside the state
Retired
California public employees are flocking to Idaho with their pension funds and becoming the financial "lifeblood" of at least one Idaho town, ruffling feathers with some locals who are taking issue with the "liberal baggage" of the new residents.
The Los Angeles Times reported this month the town of Eagle, Idaho, has seen an influx of retired cops and firefighters moving to their town with many of them identifying as conservative but who "seem practically socialist to the old guard" with their large pensions.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-re...t-a-minute
This is happening in my county. Has been for years. Either military retirees from Fort Bragg who prefer to not move one more time, or folks from NY and NJ with their pensions and politics.
NC is turning purple thanks to these folks.
Talked to a pair at the pub last night fresh in from San Diego. It's been happening here since the pandemic.
I was born in Idaho in 1968. I lived there until I joined the navy. All of my family still lives there. There has always been people leaving Ca. for Idaho, but now they have decided to call them all liberals which very well could be true. The biggest thing people from Idaho hate is the CA people moving to Idaho and deciding that Idaho people must conform to the Ca. lifestyle. When I was a kid, the biggest migration was seasonal migrant workers who worked the farms and fields during the summer and then go back to Mexico with all the US dollars they could save. Many of them sent nearly their entire paychecks home and lived an incredibly lavish lifestyle in Mexico. Now they just stay in Idaho year round and very few work the fields. The Ca. people leave Ca. for a change from big city life to small towns, but then demand that Idaho change it's way of life, to the way it is in Ca., you know, the place they decided they didnt like living in but they want to make it just like the place they left.
(12-30-2023, 05:56 PM)wrong_box Wrote: [ -> ]I was born in Idaho in 1968. I lived there until I joined the navy. All of my family still lives there. There has always been people leaving Ca. for Idaho, but now they have decided to call them all liberals which very well could be true. The biggest thing people from Idaho hate is the CA people moving to Idaho and deciding that Idaho people must conform to the Ca. lifestyle. When I was a kid, the biggest migration was seasonal migrant workers who worked the farms and fields during the summer and then go back to Mexico with all the US dollars they could save. Many of them sent nearly their entire paychecks home and lived an incredibly lavish lifestyle in Mexico. Now they just stay in Idaho year round and very few work the fields. The Ca. people leave Ca. for a change from big city life to small towns, but then demand that Idaho change it's way of life, to the way it is in Ca., you know, the place they decided they didnt like living in but they want to make it just like the place they left.
This is what the northerners do here. They move here and get on city councils and other boards of influence and decide to change things to the NY and NJ ways of things.