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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it. [/quote]

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics.   MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers.   Enjoy!  I am moving![/quote]

We moved, too!  I have many friends still in Mo Co - many in denial - but one too strapped to move.  She's disgusted by the schools and their lack of rigor and discipline.  [/quote]

The "dwindling population" is increasing every year.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/md/montgomery-county-population/

Even at the 2018 rate, that's 12 people a day that need new housing.  Strange way to describe a "dwindling population".[/quote]

The reference was to taxpayers, implicitly those who pay the incomes taxes on which the rest of MC live.  Top 10% of TPs pay roughly 70% of income taxes.  MC can't survive on low to medium income TPs.  What Maryland and MC actually should do is to reduce upper rates and to eliminate Maryland estate tax, eliminating the financial incentive to leave Maryland.  States like AZ and FL depend on the arrival of retirees, many of which move there for tax reasons.

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Yes, a lot of folks move out of high col areas to lower col areas when they retire. We will, too, but it's not necessarily because of progressive politics. For example, I would *love* to retire to CA if I could, but housing costs are too high.

But high earners who are still working will stay in high col areas like MoCo because of the proximity to high paying jobs, which tend to be concentrated in progressive urban areas like the Bay Area and NYC, and DC.  Those jobs are not located in very red counties in the US.
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Why do you think that the housing costs are too high in CA, if not for the progressive politics? Do you honestly not see the link?[/quote]
No.. it's high because lots of people with lots of money are moving there or getting rich there and buying up homes. And because the job market there is pretty hot, and so it drives up housing costs.   I lived in CA for 40 years, both NorCal and SoCal.  I think you don't know what you are talking about.

Same for places like NYC and DC are expensive of progressive policies.  Wherever there are lots of educated people with high paying jobs the area turns blue.

So, what you are saying is that places like WV and NE are not progressive and that's why its cheap to live there?   Well, you are partly correct... very conservative areas don't attract the highly educated or the high paying jobs.  That's why housing costs in such places tend to be cheap.

Do you honestly not see that link?[/quote]

In other words, only the liberal elites can afford the liberal bastions of socialism, and the middle-class is being driven out?[/quote]

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