Posted on 02/11/2023 3:25:29 AM PST by dennisw
Thousands of Californians leaving the Golden State looking to escape the rampant homelessness and high cost of living are landing in neighboring Nevada, overrunning the state's few major cities.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Reno area has seen 25,000 new residents according to reports and is expected to be one of the fastest growing cities in the coming years.
An article published by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday found that the droves of residents are moving to northern Nevada and causing issues with pre-settled residents who are seeing rising prices and traffic troubles.
The former-Californians are searching for the 'perfect elixir — a California bender without the hangover.'
California residents and businesses began moving to the northern Nevada region back in 2014 when Tesla started building a battery pack factory outside Reno.
The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center has become the world's largest industrial center and covers 166 square miles.
The center is so expansive it is roughly the size of New Orleans, Louisiana.
The biggest appeal for business owners? Massive tax breaks.
Reno's facility also offers companies a quick permitting process, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The business moves and the COVID-19 pandemic spurred a new wave of Californians heading out east and recreating their California lifestyle as a 'technology hub with comfortable communities, economic growth and mountain views — without California's problems.'
'Here, they can retire or work from home or the ski slopes while keeping close ties to the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles,' the LA Times reported.
Along with their move, however, has come the development of luxury apartments and homes, as shopping districts and more amenities.
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They have come here. We are fortunate that all that built and moved into our little slice of heaven are very conservative. Seems the states population has doubled in the last 10 years.
Don’t worry about it. When it gets too crowded the new residents will just vote for a light rail train, affordable housing in every neighborhood, and bike paths. Lots of bike paths.
N Central Ark is beautiful but the people from Illinois, California, and Minnesota are piling in daily. I moved here from Mississippi and raised the average IQ in both states.
High density housing, enough it seems, to at least double Reno’s population, is being constructed everywhere you look.
There are probably lots of previously conservative places that this is being done to.
Demographics engineering.
Indeed the west coast now has a Mexico area code.
Building back better huh Moe.
My wife and I considered moving to your part of the world when I retired, but we ended up staying in the Arizona desert. Sure looks like nice country in western AR, though (we were thinking about somewhere between Mena and Fort Smith).
Indeed the west coast now has a Mexico area code.
LOL
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