Heading west to escape liberal tyranny – The Spectator World
More recently, the Associated Press reported on a trend of real estate companies advertising themselves to people on the right, saying they can take them out of liberal bastions such as Seattle and San Francisco and find them homes in places such as rural Idaho.
According to Todd Savage, who runs Flee the City, a strategic relocation real estate and consulting firm that markets property to liberty-minded clients with a desire to live free anywhere in rural America, the movement is nothing new, though it has intensified in the last couple years.
The Flee the City movement has been around for decades and started in the 1960s and early 70s with libertarian-minded renegade hippies, as they were called back then, Savage told me. They sought land in rural areas all over the country, including Northern Idaho (Sandpoint) and northwest Montana (the Yaak). They simply wanted to be left alone to live the way they saw fit. Today, folks from all walks of life, but mainly conservative libertarians to the religious right, have felt pressure to simply vote with their feet and make a strategic relocation to a rural region of the country. For many, Idaho and Montana are seen as the last refuge of the patriot, as they offer lower taxes, less government oversight and more freedom regarding sustainable living and respect for the Bill of Rights for all.
Idaho! In the news! Thinking about these mobile professionals moving into rural Idaho, if by “rural” they mean actually *rural* Idaho, conjures up quite a mental image. Maybe they should stick to places like McCall and Coeur d’Alene first, until they get the hang of things. Just a suggestion.