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Idaho

yonder

(10,102 posts)

7. More than 40 years ago, we escaped our home state

Reply to jmowreader (Reply #6)

Sat Feb 8, 2020, 02:01 PM

Feb 2020

of Colorado for the sanctuary of Idaho, trying to get away from that very thing. The last 15 - 20 years has shown there really is no escape.

People cash out from an expensive state, move here and buy 3 or 4 times the house they had for the same thing. We're catching up to the same thing we/they fled.

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