Posted on 04/02/2020 1:52:25 PM PDT by C19fan
Rural America is experiencing 'disaster gentrification' as wealthy Covid-19 evacuees from the hotspot cities flock to the relative safety of picturesque towns. In Blaine County Idaho, home to Sun Valley ski resort, more than half of the houses are rental properties. As of yesterday 228 had tested positive for the disease, around 10 percent of its population. 'People come here from all over the world,' ER doctor Brent Russell told the Idaho Statesman. 'When I'm in the ER, I get people from New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Seattle. Every week there's people from those places.
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Great.. they’ll bring their filthy liberal ways with them.
There’s value in living a place that wealthy people have no interest in, LOL.
A F Scott Fitzgerald or Tom Wolfe could write a book about this.
Roadblocks
My sister in Boise told me of this problem 2 weeks ago
The small towns don’t have the medical resources and the little stores don’t have the stock for everyone, let alone the rich hoarders
Don’t move to E. Tenn. You’ll hate it here
Little diversity, monochromatic
Lots of trees, mountains, hills, lakes and streams. No room for stores.
It’s really easy to buy a gun.
Prices for housing are too low.
Food is cheap.
Most of the people are patriotic. What’s worse, they’re honest.
There’s no income tax, so I don’t think the state will improve much.
Those TVA lakes are just miserable
Dolly Parton music is high art
The Smokies are just crawling with damn Yankees and tourists from Floriduh
Towns like Oak Ridge are just intellectual wastelands
The color Orange is everywhere
Save yourself, stay away
I live here, and I’m an asshole.
They have done this with refugees as well.
I see any license plates from urban hellholes driving slow rubbernecking and I pull the septic tank cover for a bit and give them a 'whiff' of country living perfume.
Where I live there are 4 dive bars downtown. If this place develops it will be loud sports bars. Prices go up.People bring their money in with them. A siren call.
Jayson Blair?
Is that you?
Good friends retired down to Lake Martin near Auburn. Their Sheriff has let it be known people with GA plates from Atlanta counties aren’t welcome, that their home is where their plates are and they aren’t sheltering in place, and therefore they are breaking the law. Even if they own a house on the lake!
I am reminded of the impromptu roadblocks on the Greater New Orleans Bridge after Katrina, preventing exodus into the Unaffected West Bank
A while back there was an article in the Asheville paper about the college kids coming back home.
Thomas Wolfe was my first thought.
I hate that word “gentrification.” Looked it up many times and still cannot understand its real meaning. It’s a made up word, coined by a British sociologist.
Glad I wasn’t eating or drinking anything when I read your deplorable, flyover zone poetry, ha!ha!ha!ha! Life is better where elitists are not.
You are lucky. Where I live, all the bars, clubs and restaurants are closed. I miss all the assholes I used to hate.
It’s sort of a parallel construction to “Californication”.
They flee their plague-riddled urban centers to escape the plague and risk spreading the plague to those who are safe in hitherto plague-free communities.
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