Good Or Bad?

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People are voting with their feet, sadly they are migrating to states that share their views, is this good or bad?

Survey: One-Third of Real Estate Agents Report Clients Moving Due to Local Politics and Laws
CT NewsJunkie
by Staff Report
February 8, 2024

A recent national survey by Redfin found that roughly one-third of real estate agents have at least one client who moved primarily because of local laws or politics in the last year.

The results reported do not mean that one-third of homebuyers moved because of local laws or politics in 2023. This is the first time Redfin has asked its agents this question.

“Factors like housing affordability, proximity to family and living close to job centers often outweigh political preferences or local laws when people are choosing where to live,” Redfin stated.

However, they said the pandemic-drive rise in remote work gave Americans more flexibility in where they could live. And a record number relocated to a different metro area in 2023.

It’s unclear if Connecticut, which is controlled by a Democratic majority, won any residents because of its politics or policies.

“Unlike our neighboring states which are losing population, Connecticut has gained population over the last few years,” Gov. Ned Lamont said Wednesday during his state-of-the-state address. “Today we have more people working, more people starting businesses, more people joining labor unions with better pay and better benefits, more of our graduates staying in Connecticut, and more out-of-staters wanting to move here.”

Is it good or bad that they are moving because of political views.

I believe it is not. As the nation because more divided I think we are becoming more unstable. Walls are going up like they did back in the civil war, instead of slavery dividing the nation it is abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, gun control, and the border. We are seeing an increase in bias crimes like Pride flags being ripped down, and increase in bias violence like the deadly attacks on gay nightclubs.

It divides our foreign policies, wars are tearing the fabric of our country and aid to Ukraine and Israeli is also becoming a wedge issue.

We are seeing increase in legislation that does not expand personal rights but limiting our rights to abortion, limiting our healthcare, limiting our rights to travel freely.

We have lost the ability to reach across the aisle for compromise and when they do have bipartisan bills they are attacked as was the bipartisan bill on the border security.

What about states that are becoming far right-wing where certain people are not welcome such as Montana or Wyoming where LGBTQ people are nit welcome?

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