Sadly the swamps are draining, but blurring red states into purple states.
Yeah, that's a serious complaint I hear from friends in destination cities and states. Something like, "it used be be great here in XYZ until all of you New Yorkers moved here and brought New York with you."
Yup, we had the same kinda dynamics going when I was a kid growing up in the country in PA. City folks would buy up some land or a house and move in to 'get away' ... but then demand the same kinda services and BS they were running away from. Same stuff, different day.
I never understood that. I left NYC for a reason. (Lots of reasons, actually.) Why would I want to import those same reasons elsewhere?
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