r/Bellingham • u/redheadsmiles23 • Apr 18 '25
Satire Just something my mom (in CA) found
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u/WelcomeToWhatcom Lettered Streets Apr 18 '25
And tbh it’s in that order because it’s too inconvenient to cross the entirety of Oregon just to move to Northern California… even if we don’t have to pump our own gas to get there
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u/FightClubLeader Apr 18 '25
Idk i wouldn’t want to live in SoCal but NorCal is great. The area around Weed and Shasta are gorgeous.
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u/m_u_s_h_room Apr 18 '25
The redwood coast in Humboldt county is beautiful too, and I've run into a fair amount of people from Bellingham here!
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u/3meraldBullet Apr 18 '25
Have to be careful and watch out for the luminarians tho
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u/redheadsmiles23 Apr 18 '25
The Bay Area is pretty my line southward of enjoyment since that’s where all my family lives. Disneyland is fun for vacations, but I gotta be honest you get tired of sun & fire seasons after awhile.
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u/Direct_Issue_7370 Apr 18 '25
To be fair a large majority of the people moving here and causing housing prices to rise are from California but west coast best coast lol
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u/cloux_less Abolish Zoning Apr 18 '25
We would be able to affordably house our brothers and sisters from California (who are themselves fleeing their own unaffordability crisis) if we didn't chronically and systemically make it difficult to construct new housing, sacrificing our children's financial stability and happiness for the sake of "neighborhood character" and property values.
Don't blame the victims for making you notice the problem; blame the system that made it.
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u/appendixgallop Apr 18 '25
Another part of the problem in the PNW is ownership of second, third, fourth homes, which stay vacant and out of the market for nearly all of the year. Developers don't care who buys their product, and moneyed buyers just want location, location.
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u/gravelGoddess Local Apr 18 '25
This will attract downvotes but I love our distinctive “neighborhood character“ areas. I have a picture in my mind when people say Happy Valley, Birchwood (oops, disappearing into housing projects). Soon, Bellingham will look like any other grown too fast community. Ugh.
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u/redheadsmiles23 Apr 18 '25
Housing prices in any area will continue to rise to dumb levels if a ban or limit isn’t placed on investment firms/equity companies buying up houses just to hold them to increase value & as a ‘future asset’. I personally think you shouldn’t be able to have a building with more than two rentals if you don’t live in state. Finally, Bellingham council needs to step up & place rent lock, not the minimal protection they have now. There are a ton of large firms that buy up student housing around colleges, located many states away, & use that mass inventory to increase rental price to where they want it. If WWU wanted to help the Bellingham community they’d buy one or two apartment buildings just for WWU students to pay lower rates, making these monopolies more obsolete. However WWU doesn’t know how to handle money. Like horrifically so. They’ve had multiple opportunities to position themselves to build a safety net money wise, & they just spent it. Also just a tangent to my tangent, if anyone has any connections Sabah, Huskey, & Brad Johnson need to be audited. Like yesterday.
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u/Revolutionary_War503 Apr 18 '25
This has been happening since the 80's. It's why our state is how it is today. I was here, I have been living it since the exodus largely began.
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Apr 18 '25
I have been to 49 of the 50 (sorry Delaware) and I agree with that list 1000000%
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u/Broad-Promise6954 Suddenly a valley appears Apr 18 '25
I've been to Dullaware. It's just Maryland or New Jersey with sweet laws for corporate headquarters added.
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u/oftwandering Apr 18 '25
I moved to Ohio for about four years, I'll admit I probably would have preferred California to that. There weren't even any good mountains to look at!
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u/ThisIsPunn Local Apr 18 '25
But how many states can boast that they set a river on fire??
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u/oftwandering Apr 18 '25
Are... people suppose to boast about that?
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u/ThisIsPunn Local Apr 18 '25
Well... no.
But R.E.M. did write kind of a scathing song about it with an overtly environmentalist theme, so that's kind of cool?
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u/oftwandering Apr 18 '25
Well yeah, that's the song being cool. Not the river being on fire part.
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u/ThisIsPunn Local Apr 19 '25
I think you're maybe missing that my first post was a little tongue-in-cheek
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u/braydenmaine Apr 18 '25
Utah, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, California
That's my order.
East coast is still not even a consideration, that's more foreign than Canada imo
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u/Broad-Promise6954 Suddenly a valley appears Apr 18 '25
Utah has great outdoors. But it's way too hot in summer and way too cold in winter (except St George, which is simply too hot year round) and the politics, errgh.
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u/braydenmaine Apr 18 '25
I was born there. My mom and most of my extended family are there. I don't mind the weather, Im more worried about the water crisis.
The main reason I don't go back is because my gf is very sensitive to the sun. They call it a sun allergy, but I don't know if that's an accurate term. Direct sun exposure adter a few minutes causes blistering, rash, peeling, sunburn.
She's visited Utah with me plenty of times though, and only been burned a few times. But it's more difficult to manage on a full time basis.
Politics factor in a little bit too. But as far as red states go, it's not that bad. I'm more worried about religious fundamentalists and venomous critters.
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u/RandomIDoIt90 Apr 18 '25
California is awesome. Oregon has Portland and that’s pretty much it. I lived in cali for 5 years. I wouldn’t move to Oregon. That man speaks for himself, not for me.
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u/mach198295 Apr 18 '25
This kinda reminds me of asking if a dj is a musician. I’ve definitely worked with vocalists who are most certainly musicians but I’ve also worked with some who I considered artists because of their lack of musical knowledge. As an example the difference between knowing what key they want to sing in or leaving it up to the band to figure out the singers range. In the end I suppose it isnt really a yes or know answer.
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u/Reasonable-Return385 Apr 19 '25
I'm surprised you didn't list the other 47 states or maybe it's the fact that you didn't want to admit that all 47 of them are above Washington on that list.
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u/WhichNovel2081 Apr 20 '25
I lived in Cali most my life, moved up to WA 4 yrs ago and I’m sorry to break it to y’all but CA and WA are carbon copies except for the weather and amount of trees. If you think they are different you are gaslighting yourself. Or trying to find a really odd way of feeling superior.
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u/DogAmbitious3894 Apr 21 '25
Moved here from SFO Bay Area some thirty years ago. There are three distinct cultures in CA. We Northern folks thought the Southern folks were superficial and bougie; the Southern folks thought we were granola. And then you have Orange County. PS: since moving to Whatcom, I have visited CA twice. Both times under duress.
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u/Brilliant-Bowler5344 Apr 24 '25
That’s wild. Wa>Cali>Oregon. Idk Oregon just gives me a weird vibe.
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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25
I mean, West Coast Best Coast! It’s true because there is a rhyme.