Eclipses and Unintended Consequences
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Just a side note ...
Had a friend who lived in the NW U.S., when her small town experienced an eclipse in 2017. She said they probably had 30,000 tourists in the area for the event. For the most part, people were well behaved and the only problems were inconveniences, like gas stations running out of gas or the grocery store running out of some food items.
The problem came a few years later ...As Portland got weirder, developers and people remembered the friendly small town and the ranch land around it. Big money moved in and started buying property, putting in subdivisions or individuals were offering obscene amounts for some of the older homes and properties .
As the city dwellers started to outnumber the country folk, politics changed and many of the things the Portlanders wanted to escape, started to get a foothold in the small town . My friend sold her small ranch and moved, as did most of her neighbors, both in town and in the surrounding countryside. She estimates only about 20% of the 2017 residents are still there.
She still blames part of her small town's destruction on the eclipse...
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Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Just a side note ...
Had a friend who lived in the NW U.S., when her small town experienced an eclipse in 2017. She said they probably had 30,000 tourists in the area for the event. For the most part, people were well behaved and the only problems were inconveniences, like gas stations running out of gas or the grocery store running out of some food items.
The problem came a few years later ...As Portland got weirder, developers and people remembered the friendly small town and the ranch land around it. Big money moved in and started buying property, putting in subdivisions or individuals were offering obscene amounts for some of the older homes and properties .
As the city dwellers started to outnumber the country folk, politics changed and many of the things the Portlanders wanted to escape, started to get a foothold in the small town . My friend sold her small ranch and moved, as did most of her neighbors, both in town and in the surrounding countryside. She estimates only about 20% of the 2017 residents are still there.
She still blames part of her small town's destruction on the eclipse...
@Jolly HOpefully, she was able to sell at the high price.
Lie a lot of things - it will go in a cycle. People discover a small town/city, etc., move in, drive up prices, people move to another lower priced place,
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We bought a vacant one acre rural residential lot on the edge of the Canadian Pacific Northwest region in 2016 for less than 100k CAD (75K USD). The same lot today would sell for 250K CAD (183K USD) despite two massive and devastating wildfires in the immediate area; the first in 2021 and then another last summer. Demand and prices for real estate continue to rise throughout the region.
That part of the world is in high demand for the 50 years plus generation whose careers are either winding down or in retirement. Although COVID might have initiated higher demand in past few years for various reasons, milder climate and accessibility to amenities and infrastructure were, and continue to be, the drivers. The now forgotten eclipse of 2017 had nothing to do with any of it.
