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Dear Charlie, Hello from Nampa, ID. I followed you to your substack from your post on the Culture Studies classifieds. My partner and I moved to downtown Nampa in 2013 from the coast in Los Angeles (Hermosa Beach).

I read this article with great interest because I would dearly love to move again but my partner says he's not interested in investing a couple of years to the upheaval and disruption that moving requires. He's 79, and I can see his point. I doubt that we'll be leaving. My children and grandchildren live in Seattle, Vancouver WA, and Portland.

We gradually retreated from community involvement here in Nampa beginning with the Trump years and then abruptly halted with the arrival of the pandemic. I miss the engagement but feel so out of place now.

I think our experience would be so different if we'd moved to Boise instead, but Boise commercial property was out of our budget even back then. We own a sweet storefront near the beautiful Nampa train depot.

We didn't think the politics mattered much when we got here, but things have changed. Not only in Nampa, I know. We hope to come into Boise more often and spend time with more like minded friends--there are more of them in Boise than in Nampa.

Thanks for a place to tell my story 😉. I'm not very political, perhaps because of my immigrant family culture--lots of colonial patriotism that feels way too weird to me. Still thinking about how to sort THAT out, too!

Betty

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