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   From: wigger@shock.com   
      
   They don't like wiggers in Idaho.  Leave your "California values" where   
   they belong, in the toilet.   
      
   Jodi Wright, 56, moved from California to Idaho in 2020 in search of a   
   quiet place to retire.   
      
   Wright and her family built a custom home outside Boise.   
      
   But they moved back to California earlier this year because of rising   
   prices.   
      
   This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jodi Wright, a 56-   
   year-old stay-at-home mother whose family moved from Sacramento,   
   California, to Caldwell, Idaho, a small town about 30 minutes west of   
   Boise, in 2020.   
      
   Idaho's housing market has exploded in the past four years, with the   
   state's median home price jumping from $360,700 in September 2020 to   
   $481,100 in September 2024, per Redfin. Meanwhile, median home prices in   
   Boise jumped from $389,500 in September 2020 to $525,000 in September   
   2024, per Redfin.   
      
   The following has been lightly edited for length and clarity.   
      
   I was born in Washington state. When I graduated from high school, I   
   wanted a change of scenery, so I packed up my car and moved to California.   
      
   I met my husband here, and he's a police officer. We were blessed with   
   triplets, but one of our sons passed away soon after being born. It was   
   terrible, but it definitely clarified life.   
      
   We've always been outdoorsy people. Our vacations are usually geared   
   around the beach or Disney. You can pretty much do that year-round here in   
   California, which we love.   
      
   But the cost of living is so high, and our political affiliation is   
   Republican. That became a problem when COVID-19 hit and they shut down the   
   schools. Our kids were in second grade and struggling.   
      
   We'd already purchased land in Idaho in 2018. We planned to move once my   
   husband retired, but the pandemic sped up our plans.   
      
   We moved to Idaho in December 2020   
   We listed our house in California, which sold in one day for $699,000.   
   Zillow estimated that it's now worth over $900,000.   
      
   My husband wasn't old enough to retire yet, so he stayed in California to   
   keep working. We figured we'd just make do for a few years until my   
   husband could join us full time.   
      
   We were a little nervous about how that would work, but he traveled back   
   and forth to Idaho two or three times a month, and we would FaceTime.   
      
   We started building our Idaho house in Caldwell, a town that's part of the   
   Treasure Valley on the outskirts of the Boise area. It was still   
   affordable at that time. If we were to move there now, we couldn't afford   
   the house we built, which cost us about $750,000.   
      
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   See the problem?   
      
   https://www.yahoo.com/news/moved-california-idaho-small-town-   
   110402561.html   
      
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