California Retirees Flocking to Small Idaho Town, Prompting Concerns About ‘Liberal Baggage’: ‘Wait a minute’
31st December 2023
Retired California public employees are flocking to Idaho with their pension funds and becoming the financial “lifeblood” of at least one Idaho town, ruffling feathers with some locals who are taking issue with the “liberal baggage” of the new residents.
The Los Angeles Times reported this month the town of Eagle, Idaho, has seen an influx of retired cops and firefighters moving to their town with many of them identifying as conservative but who “seem practically socialist to the old guard” with their large pensions.
Two California transplants squared off in the most recent mayoral race, and the key issue between the two former Golden State residents was “who was the least Californian.”