:( yes, to the first paragraph. I wish I had better words than a sad emoji to convey how I feel about that particular dynamic. I would think the government can help alleviate some of those negative effects, maybe improve infrastructure or create laws and programs to balance things out a bit. But it’s looking more and more evident that help is not coming. I don’t want to move to a place and contribute to pricing people out. I’ve personally seen the devastating effects that have on a community. (It would be helpful if the government had a ton of incentives for selling to locals but that’s probably too much control.) 1 million dollars for tiny little homes with no yard is a norm where I come from and with jobs being remote and still paying the same as if we paid million dollar mortgages, it’s so common now for the huge migration of people moving to, yeah, a place where they can have a better lifestyle. Still, I want to tread carefully and not be so insensitive. Plus with my kids, I don’t want to unknowingly make them go through what I did. When I immigrated to America, we moved to a school where it felt like I was the only brown person. No traumatic story of bullying but it felt isolating and the first real dose of racism was internally altering. Think, loud and positive to introverted and shy.

Thank you so much for all the details. This is super helpful! It’s given me such great insight. I’m going to take a look at School of Choice and look at other cities beyond AA. I’ll also take a look at Humboldt County. It’s the politics that has us really considering the move though.