Just don't come to my ski town, damnit... trails are crowded enough already!
-W
Well you know I'm still looking. Park City was very high on my list. Maybe I will bring all the disgruntled Californians with me ;-).
Looks like we'll bring disgruntled Californian's with us after our move. Close family most immediately.
After announcing our move to friends and family I was surprised by the number of people who quietly confessed that they, too, were looking to relocate out of state. I know the statistics from recent polls, but it's quite another thing to hear it first hand from so many folks. About half had concrete short-term plans to relocate. The other half expressed a strong desire to move long-term, but were toughing it out for work and/or family reasons, mostly kids already in high school with established network of friends. Families with young children are leaving in droves, our former elementary school is rapidly shrinking.
Where are they going, or where would they like to go? Roughly 20% are true rural folks currently toughing out a suburban existence within a tolerable commute to high-paying jobs. This group plans to retire to a big plot of land in the countryside. They would like nothing more than to have no neighbors in sight.
The other approximately 80% prefer an urban and/or suburban lifestyle. Yet they find housing prices, substandard housing, traffic, crime, and
human excrement covered sidewalks untenable. They are looking for reasonably priced urban and suburban areas and are fanning out across the US: OR, WA, ID, TX, AZ, NV, SC, TN, CO, NM.
For many the luster of the California Dream has worn off.