Somewhere
Apr26
on 04/26/2018
at 12:01 am
We live in a mobile world… where it’s pretty easy to get around. We’re all from somewhere else, mostly. I know very few people who have lived their entire life in one place.
Randie and Ryan
Tripping through married life…
So many people were leaving California the government stopped reporting the numbers.
California has many things that might be causing an exodus. I have several longtime California pals who threw in the towel recently… high rent was a factor. Difficulty making ends meet where the rent sucks out most of your paycheck… kind of a big deal.
SO true. Unless you’re from the east. My wife’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, and multiple other relatives from the Shearer family who lived and died in the 1700s and 1800s, are buried less than three miles away.
I myself am the great-grandson of 19th Century immigrants. Except the Luther side of the family. They came to the New World in the 1630s. But even THEY came from somewhere else.
We visited the end of the Oregon Trail not too long ago. You wanna talk about people who wanted a better life and risked everything to do it. I am amazed at the tenacity of those people to be on the road for 8 months and better. And it warn’t an easy road.
Coming to a new continent altogether… no easy ride either! My French Canadian roots came to New France in the middle part of the 1600’s, too. Then they had winter to deal with!
I’m liking this Steph!!
me, too!
My mother comes from Washington State; my father from Perryton (which is in the Panhandle, but is also a good 2-hour drive from the town we currently live in). We live in Amarillo or the nearby small town of Canyon; but we’ve been around. My sisters have been to Canada and across a good portion of Europe; one sister is currently working in Uganda, and I am halfway through a two-month trip in Thailand myself. And my ancestors came from all across Northern and Eastern Europe. So we’re all pretty reliably from Somewhere, even if we’ll be glad to get back to our own little patch of it when the time comes.
Wow… thanks for checking in on Randie & Ryan while you’re traveling!!!
It’s a big ocean… and we complain about PLANE rides!!!! Can you imagine coming over on a sailing ship? And then train… or whatever…sheesh!
I escaped California, and moved to Reno in 1981.
You’ve been Reno-ing it for awhile then. You must like it there. I ain’t never been. Your migration was successful!
Level headed understanding and chillness, that’s a rare thing to find in some cases. Though being Canadian I’m unfamiliar with the Cali migration issues.
Yah… Steph is pretty chill.
I will get you up to speed. Many cities in California are becoming more unaffordable. The areas around the ocean communities have seen skyrocketing home values. I could not afford to buy a house in Monterey or many of the communities I love anywhere along the coast.
In the case of where I came from, high costs of housing around the San Jose area (Silicon Valley) and a willingness to commute to other places with lower housing costs, have driven up home values. People are selling and leaving…. traffic is bad on major freeway arteries.
Portland is absorbing a lot of those moving North… looking for the weird quirk that the TV show “Portlandia” promises… and also lower housing prices… which are rising.
Ah, so in short the people leaving the area looking for cheaper housing are ruining it for the people who were enjoying the cheaper housing because now things are getting more expensive because of the interest, got it. Thank you. Same thing is happening in rural north ontario. Two years ago the most expensive house in town was 50 grand. Now people are selling houses asking half a million.
Why would someone be afraid to be hated for being Californian? LA I get, but all of California? That’s like hating people from all the NE seaboard, it’s a REALLY big state people, we’re not all the same!
Oh just general migratory hate, that’s dumb, but I get it a bit I guess…
Portland is experiencing a boom right now. SOOO many people are moving here (like me)…. Portland is just cool…. and people want to live here. The city has great mass-transit, lots of fun things to do, more affordable housing than much of California, the place is quirky… and the people are friendly… mostly. There are the “anti-California” people who think that the CA migration is driving up home prices and ruining everything. It’s a thing.
I bought a couple of acres around Klamath Falls over a decade ago, and was pretty apologetic at first about being from California, but people reassured me that pretty much “everyone was from California,” and it wasn’t really an issue.
BTW, I’m really enjoying the current storyline!