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bayareabadger

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4396 on: July 02, 2020, 09:01:15 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on July 02, 2020, 08:59:06 PM
No, once you buy property you rename the town "Pleasantville" to bring people in and raise your own property value... That way you have an exit strategy.
Unless you have kids. Then it’s hard for them to live close. 
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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4397 on: July 02, 2020, 09:17:46 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on July 02, 2020, 08:11:19 PM
I swear, if y’all are neighbors 

Colorado City, AZ btw is probably the most extreme example of a California transplant that completely wrecked an entire community, single handily. And it only took him five years to do it. 

Before he moved there, they were living high on the hog. Their streets were lined with mansions, they all drove high end Trucks and SUVs, they had a bunch of horses and ATVs, and all the luxuries you could ever want in a desert community. 

Fast forward to today, and the streets are still lined with mansions, but most sit vacant with the windows busted out and the doors caved in. All that remains is piles of human wreckage, trying to make the best of their new situation. 

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4398 on: July 02, 2020, 09:40:31 PM »
...and Warren Jeffs and the polygamists.  That, too.
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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4399 on: July 02, 2020, 10:32:59 PM »
I was referring to Warren Jeffs, who of course was born in California. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4400 on: July 02, 2020, 11:20:42 PM »
Yeah, there were a lot of other issues going on with Warren Jeffs. Being from California was the least of their worries. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4401 on: July 02, 2020, 11:52:13 PM »
True, but it remains the most extreme example of a town in Arizona getting completely wrecked by a California transplant.

On the plus side, they make a pretty mean batch of cheese curds out there. Credit where due.
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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4402 on: July 03, 2020, 12:47:59 AM »
Oh yeah, speaking of Colorado City, there is a town just east of it where all those Bundy ranchers reside. Cane Beds Arizona, iirc. They even have a road named after that guy that got gunned down by the FBI in Oregon.

Lots of interesting towns around here, with a lot of character. And a lot of characters.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4403 on: July 03, 2020, 08:21:07 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on July 02, 2020, 09:17:46 PM
Colorado City, AZ btw is probably the most extreme example of a California transplant that completely wrecked an entire community, single handily. And it only took him five years to do it.

Before he moved there, they were living high on the hog. Their streets were lined with mansions, they all drove high end Trucks and SUVs, they had a bunch of horses and ATVs, and all the luxuries you could ever want in a desert community.

Fast forward to today, and the streets are still lined with mansions, but most sit vacant with the windows busted out and the doors caved in. All that remains is piles of human wreckage, trying to make the best of their new situation.


I think that's probably the propaganda the city puts out to attract new people.  Colorado City was founded as a polygamist town, and Warren Jeffs was far from a "California transplant" - his father was polygamist Rulon Jeffs who died with like 80 wives in Utah. There is some thought that Jeffs was only born in California because his mother was in hiding after the government raided the community for polygamists in 1953.  
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4404 on: July 03, 2020, 09:10:50 AM »
No, that was a Brutus original. 

I branded it as the "most extreme" example for a reason. And that reason was not to give the implication that it was commonplace. Or that it would ever be duplicated.

The man was born in Sacramento, irrespective of the reason, and he brought that community to it's knees. All in under five years.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4405 on: July 03, 2020, 09:16:05 AM »
That city appears to be growing in population.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4406 on: July 03, 2020, 09:52:09 AM »
It is an insular community. Their numbers have always been difficult to count or calculate. 

The dwellings were mostly occupied around the turn of the millennium, and are mostly vacant today. 

The mass exodus from that town during that time period has been well documented. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4407 on: July 03, 2020, 10:05:22 AM »
After a century, polygamists choose to leave Short Creek homes rather than deal with land trust

https://www.sltrib.com/news/polygamy/2017/05/19/after-a-century-polygamists-choose-to-leave-short-creek-homes-rather-than-deal-with-land-trust/

Why polygamists are leaving their historic hometowns along the Utah-Arizona border

https://www.sltrib.com/news/polygamy/2017/05/25/why-polygamists-are-leaving-their-historic-hometowns-along-the-utah-arizona-border/

Evictions in polygamous town include traveling band of onlookers

Women, children follow the “eviction team” of the land trust that owns the homes, taking photos and videos of families getting kicked out.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/polygamy/2017/06/04/evictions-in-polygamous-town-include-traveling-band-of-onlookers/

Woman tries to run down constable during evictions at polygamous Short Creek

https://www.sltrib.com/news/polygamy/2015/07/11/woman-tries-to-run-down-constable-during-evictions-at-polygamous-short-creek/
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4408 on: July 03, 2020, 10:31:34 AM »
there are some things that I learn here that I'm not sure are important
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4409 on: July 03, 2020, 10:48:47 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 03, 2020, 10:31:34 AM
there are some things that I learn here that I'm not sure are important

Have you ever learned anything here that was important? O0

Anyway, sorry I brought it up. Well, Fro brought it up, but I took the bait, and that's on me.

It is all pretty complicated. Not really the easiest thing to breakdown in thread form.

There are entire books written about the demise of that community. Dozens of them. From every perspective imaginable. 
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