Here we sit in Payson, Arizona—a little mountain town that has, in recent years, been invaded by Californians. The locals don’t much like it. Around here, the default assumption is that anyone from California must be a dreaded liberal. Nothing is worse to the local MAGA rats than an educated person who dares to think.
But here’s the twist: many of these California immigrants aren’t liberals at all. They’re disgruntled right-wingers fleeing the “terrible” progressives back home. They arrive with fat wallets after selling overpriced houses in California, and they happily bid up property here, making the MAGA mess in Payson even redder and even more toxic.
About four years ago, Kadizzle built a new house in town. Thanks to the influx of rich immigrants—and Phoenix folks escaping the heat—the value has climbed nicely. One local builder has his own racket: he builds a house, lives in it just long enough to milk the tax advantages, then sells it for top dollar when the right fish swims by. One of his places nearby sold for a cool million. Now his newest house, perched right in front of our once-beautiful mountain view, is listed at $1.3 million. Maybe some rube will bite. Maybe not. But if it sells, it’ll drag our home value up with it.
That’s the strange part: Kadizzle sold the old house in North Dakota for $275,000. But that very same house, if it were sitting here in Payson, would easily sell for over half a million. Geography is destiny.
For now, Payson is riding the real estate wave. But when King Trump finishes wrecking the economy, watch how fast those “adjustments” come.
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