Anybody here moved to a blue area just for that reason?

[raccoon]

If so, how is that working for you?

[smirkymonkey]

1. No, I just seem to have been fortunate enough to have always lived in very blue

cities. I don't think I could live in a red area - I really don't. I would go insane.

[raccoon]

2. Red state induced psychosis. Nt

[CentralMass]

3. No, i just lucked out. I spent 54 years in MA and live in Oregon noe

[BigmanPigman]

6. Me too. I lived in the suburbs outside of Phila then moved to CA.

My career choices were "blue" too. I didn't become an artist (blue minded) due to that but it just worked out that way. When I changed careers and became a teacher one factor that was a huge bonus was that they were unionized (blue).

After reading posts on DU I realized how fortunate I have been. If I lived in a red state I would have either gone to jail for murder (justifiable homicide of a deplorable) or slit my own throat.

[jpljr77]

4. It's really, really, really great

I didn't move for that reason, but I went from very red to very blue, and it's awesome.

Small example: when socializing with people you don't or barely know (fellow parents from your kids' school, as a specific example), you CAN actually bring up politics! It's fantastic.

Pre-Drumpf, it was nice because you could get into great conversations about nuances and slight differences in liberal policies, and occasionally bash the right-wing idiot of the moment. Now, of course, it's just Trump bashing. And I'm fine with that, because people are getting really creative with their, "Boy, he sure is an idiot," angles. It's impressive.

[marybourg]

5. No, I live in a wonderful place, despite how people

apparently vote in the privacy of their homes. But, if I ever have to go into assisted living, where interacting with lots of people is unavoidable, I would try to go into one in a blue area -- if I'm still cognizant and able to be moved at that point.

[raccoon]

7. Maybe there are nursing homes just for liberals.

Maybe there are nursing homes just for liberals.i'll start a thread on that one of these days soon.

[marybourg]

8. Once you're ready for a nursing home,

it probably hardly matters. But at the assisted living level, you may not be much different than you were before, cognitively, but need help with some physical tasks.

I always thought the Hebrew Home for the Aged in the Bronx, N.Y. might be a good liberal home. You don't have to be "Hebrew"; 60% or more of the residents are not.

[LisaM]

9. I've always lived in blue areas (college towns and now Seattle)

so I don't know anything else.

However, I took three separate trips down to the south this past summer and I loved it. Granted, the Black Mountain/Asheville area of North Carolina is probably the most liberal part of that state, so perhaps it's not the best example, but it's still not a blue state or not a reliably blue state. I also went to Orlando and Memphis.

I have to say that I enjoy the South, I like the accents, the food, the warmth of the people (I like being called by endearments) and the friendliness, people saying "hey" when you go for a walk, people in an outside restaurant sensing that our large group all wanted to sit together and jumping up to move or volunteer their seats without our even asking, and then engaging in conversation with us. I liked eating at the Waffle House. I liked the slower pace.

Sometimes I think that we're going about it wrong, piling all the liberal voters up into coastal cities. I often wonder if the real answer is to quietly permeate cities in red (or even purple) states and just show the way by being nice, yet firm in our adherence to our beliefs, and literally change hearts and minds. We all know conservatives who have changed their stances on things like accepting gay people (for an example) because a friend or relative or child came out to them.

I couldn't live in the South mainly because of weather - I need fall and winter - but I could spend more time there and maybe we all need to quit flocking to safe enclaves. I could see myself moving to a smaller town, one that wasn't necessarily liberal, to enjoy a cheaper and slower way of life.

[raccoon]

14. If any of y'all on here want to quietly permeate upstate SC,

If any of y'all on here want to quietly permeate upstate SC, please feel free to do so with my blessing.

[LisaM]

16. I would love to see more of South Carolina.

So far, all I've done was step into it from the North Carolina side of Carowinds.

[tinrobot]

10. I helped turn California blue, thank you.

Moved here in the late 80's... we've been trending blue ever since.

[HAB911]

11. Conservatives are doing it proactively

https://conservativemove.com/

[raccoon]

15. OMG..... nt

[LisaM]

19. Yeah, something about that doesn't pass the smell test.

Are realtors actually allowed to buy and sell real estate based on the political beliefs of the buyers and sellers?

[HAB911]

21. I saw it on Vice News but here is Fox

and a bunch more:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=conservative+move

[MountCleaners]

12. I moved back to where I grew up

It was always a blue area. I could have moved to some mostly white suburb of Chicago that was less blue or not blue at all, but I can't take the racism. I prefer to live in a diverse community where voting red is just nuts. Only problem is that many of the small business owners around here are white and right-wing - one puts right-wing quotes on the sign outside his business.

Can't take the white flight attitudes, which go hand in hand with voting for this fascist monster. I like living in a place where there is general sanity about the tragedy in the WH.

[hauckeye]

13. We retired to Wisconsin

my husband's home state in 2015. He picked out an area to live in that trended blue, but unfortunately, our county went red in the 2016 election. So I guess WI isn't as blue as we thought it would be. We'll have to work on that

[pnwmom]

18. Wisconsin was an area with a lot of voter suppression that probably affected the vote tally. n/t

[pnwmom]

17. No, but we've successfully avoided moving to red states

when job offers in red states presented themselves. No, thanks!

[Tikki]

20. 47 years ago..we moved from a very red part of a BLUE State to a BLUE ...

part of a BLUE State.

We were young, still in our teens but we knew what we were doing.

No regrets.

The Tikkis

[Vinca]

22. I've lived all my adult life in blue areas, but my ideas about what I might do during

"retirement" have changed. There are some areas of the south and southwest that used to be possible relocation sites to get away from snow, but now I'm opting for snow. It's not just the politics, it's the weather, too. Climate change is making it dangerous to live down there. We get severe weather every so often, but nothing like they get. Besides, I love to garden and it looks like my plants are going to die of old age rather than frost this year. The trade-off is the usually spectacular foliage was pretty dull because of the heat.