Places to avoid on vacation

[BamaFanNKY]

I understand. I live in 45 minutes out of Nashville. Our home prices are skyrocketing and the city is getting crowded because a bunch of the Caucasian Conservative types are moving here. I have to admit, I even looked at SLC for a minute to try to set up an office. We live in desirable areas.

[UteKing]

@Buhbye

No, we want people to stay in CA. Their flight to Utah has basically made all of its great stuff nearly unusable.

The great stuff in Utah is unusable because of Utahns. 20 years ago, they could have planned for this, protected some of those natural features, planned cities that didn’t sprawl from mountain range to mountain range, but no. Utah is to blame for that, not California.

[Carolina_Cycling_Ute]

Ok, I’ll add a couple of places to avoid while on vacation. Grants and Gallup, NM. I like a majority of NM, but these to cities just feel run down and ready to fade into history to me. They’ve always felt that way.

[LAUte]

Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona and to a certain extent Colorado are all experiencing the effects of the California exodus. I think I said somewhere else here that I heard Malcolm Gladwell speak about a week ago. He said that San Francisco has been destroying itself for the past 20 years, and then after it finally hits close to bottom, younger people will move back in because prices will have fallen into affordable levels. So it’s all cyclical.

California is too beautiful a place, with too many natural resources, to die completely. The people there are simply suffering the effects of very poorly-conceived decisions by their leaders.

[BamaFanNKY]

@Carolina_Cycling_Ute

Ok, I’ll add a couple of places to avoid while on vacation. Grants and Gallup, NM. I like a majority of NM, but these to cities just feel run down and ready to fade into history to me. They’ve always felt that way.

LOL. People thought I was weird hanging in Farmington, NM in the summer. I dig the more blue-collar parts of NM.

[LAUte]

@Buhbye

One more - my father had a client who couldn’t pay him so he offered him a couple of postage stamp sized lots in Park City on Main Street. This was the early 70s and Park City had yet to be discovered. Because of the small size of the lots in a unknown mining town my dad passed on the lots and dismissed the money owed as bad debt.

Working in Park City real estate I would give my dad updates when a postage stamp sized lot would sell in Park City for $500k, etc (now worth much more).

If only we had a crystal ball.

Ah, real estate.

[The_Jim_Fassel_Era]

@UteKing

The great stuff in Utah is unusable because of Utahns. 20 years ago, they could have planned for this, protected some of those natural features, planned cities that didn’t sprawl from mountain range to mountain range, but no. Utah is to blame for that, not California.

Also, all families with more than two children.

[LAUte]

@Buhbye

I have a simple rule when it comes to the overpopulation of Utah that I think we should adhere to. It would address congestion, pollution, recreation spots, etc. And really, when I stop to think about it is a pretty ingenious and almost completely fair way to decide who gets to live here and who doesn’t. And that rule is:

If you don’t live in my household, get out of the state. I don’t care how long you’ve been here, I don’t care if you got here before me, and I don’t care if you drive an electric car, never recreate and never leave your home.

See! Basically everyone gets treated equally.

I get it. Instead of NIMBY, its NA. (Not Anywhere.)

[NewbombTurk]

@Buhbye

Working in Park City real estate I would give my dad updates when a postage stamp sized lot would sell in Park City for $500k, e

In my former life the company had a weekly company newsletter that had Want Ads. I hired on in 1980 and they always had a “Welcome Mat” page announcing new hires. I kept that weeks newspaper and looked at it right before I retired 4 years ago. There was a plot of land (acre and a half I believe) for sale in Park City for $14k. I wish I had the foresight to buy it then.