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Are you sure they run there because they love the current policies? Do you know that they didn’t move there in spite of the current policies? The housing policy that is causing a lot of distortion in California was enacted decades ago. The people migrating to Boise aren’t old folks are they? People younger than 50 didn’t have much to do with the famous property tax proposition in California.

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Most of them are under 45 I would say. Most I talk to are coming here running from either California’s political policies(guns, taxes) or Portland because it got to weird and crime is to high. We have some of the lowest metro crime rates in the US. So that’s a big draw to.

But Boise is definitely moving blue. Which is what’s cause the rub between the people who have lived here and those moving in. Even though a lot of people see Idaho as a backwards messed up state(and trust me it is in a lot of ways). The people who have been here outside of the last 5 years when it has exploded are pretty resentful of the growth.

For all of these issues it’s still a wonderful place to live. But that might change in the next 10 years.

Is it moving blue or have the GOP just moved deeper (crazy) red?

Maybe “blue” really means they’re more left-libertarian and don’t feel the GOP is a sane choice?

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