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In reply to the discussion: Can I get some good thoughts for my mom, please? She's evacuated due to fires in CA. [View all]ancianita
(35,812 posts)I've five friends there. One in Brentwood (east of SF), one atop a foothill east of Oxnard, Northridge, Pasadena and W. Hollywood. They're all uneasy.
Anyway, California's huge, but livable, affordable land is pretty scarce, according to them. I met a few CA refugees in Boseman, MT, when I did a car trip around the continent a little over a year ago. My son also says they're 'gentrifying' his town in NM. So I gather there's a migration going on.
Nature isn't fooling around when it reacts to fossil caused atmospheric pollution. Which is why our politics should immediately and always lie with the Inslee climate crisis progressives.
If you can find peace in another blue state, the economic relief alone might help mitigate the loss of familiar surroundings which might soon disappear, anyway.