I grew up in NJ, just outside of Philly. I moved to rural Missouri in 2006, and found my home with acreage to make my stand in this world in 2015. The situation there is untenable, too. Camden has been a wreck for decades. The town I grew up in, which is next to Camden, is getting all of the diversity it wants. I last visited there in 2019 and could barely recognize the place. I talked to my dad, who stayed right there in NJ and recently passed away, about a year ago. I told him, 'You know, I would have stayed right here, a mile from you, but the taxes, cost of living, traffic, crime, and all of the other policies that Trenton has passed over the decades has made this place into an overpriced dump'. He understood completely. His townhome had an annual property tax burden of $6.600.00. My brother, who lives a few miles from where my dad did, has a tax burden of over $7,000.00. There are no typos. My home, 2100sq ft, 75x25 workshop and 20 acres cost $135,000 and I pay $750.00 per year in taxes. It's not even a debate. If I lost my job tomorrow, I would be able to live here indefinitely.
That said, I do not know anything about the people who gentrify urban areas. They are dangerous places to move to. Being white and middle class there makes you stick out prominently. However, I wonder if now the danger in going to those places to refurbish them has grown too much, and the gentrification crews have moved to safer areas like Alabama?
The bright spot in the area in which I now live is that a lot of people who think like me are moving in, creating communities and refurbishing some of the blighted areas of town. They are religious groups, too. When I ask them what brings them here, they all say the same thing: 'Bible prophecy. End times events'. So, take that for what it is. They are an odd group, but, they are also hardworking, have large families and are not criminals. They want to keep their families safe.
The Ben Shapiros of the world, that I was foolish enough to support until I saw the cold reality of the Nov. elections, think that all we need to do in order to return this nation to some semblance of sanity is point at the people on the left and say: 'Look how crazy they are'. The problem with that thinking is that it is lazy, and even worse, cowardly. As insane as they are, they have concrete goals and plans in mind. Notice that none of the people who despise white men and women have been ejected from their positions of power? Not one. In order to take power, one must verbalize a goal and say it loudly and without apology. No aloofness. No memes. No 'owning the libs'. The Nick Fuentes types are just clownish navel gazers. In order to get serious, we need to BE serious. People gravitate to strength, which is why the left is winning. Their ideology may be a mile wide and half an inch deep, but they still hold power.
It sounds like you're in a good area, and a good frame of mind.
David Cole, who I respect immensely, wrote this article. It's probably the best expose on "Con Inc" I've ever seen. And he was deep inside with their Hollywood crew.
Excellent read. I watched David Cole's 1992 video several years ago, which made me question that event during WWII. I hate using the term 'grift', because it is used so often. However, Boreing and his company are doing just that: Using the current crisis in culture to make money, as they use the cultural platforms in order to achieve that goal.
My first glimpse into a nation who was serious was in my reading of history, specifically military history. I started going back and landed on the Crimean War, a conflict I had known only about through poems. I had not read on why the war started to begin with. I then read something so out of the norm that it captured my interest. That was the fact that the Russians wanted to conquer the Turks in order to change Istanbul back to Constantinople, and return it to Christian rule. The British, having lost their Christian roots to Enlightenment thinking, did not want the balance of power to shift to the Russians, so they sided with the Turks....the same people who tried to conquer Europe twice. The Russians lost and the rest is history. Not wanting to repeat that, a group of people with funny sounding last names made sure the monarchy disappeared forever, and locked that nation in a 70 year pit of darkness and despair. That is not the case anymore. As much as people like to mock the Russians as backwards, they are very serious people. Vladimir Putin has worked hard to eject corrupt business elements from their nation and is returning that nation, quite successfully, to its roots. It is something I admire. I am not of the Eastern mindset and understand very little of their culture, but, I do know that they absolutely and categorically reject the filth coming out of the West. They do not waste time with 'kitsch' and frivolities about their people, culture and religion. They have worked hard to renew and rebuild. I use 'Main Cathedral of the Armed Forces' as a prime example. It took two years to complete. Look at this drone footage of this masterpiece and tell me these people are anything but laser focused on preserving their civilization:
My taxes are $11,000 a year. 3000 square foot home. Its all for the school which we dont use. We will be elsewhere by 2025.... (i live in a wealthy suburb east of cleveland Ohio)
Oh Lord. What a waste. A friend of mine, who still lives in NJ, 'owns' a townhouse in one of those private communities. So, he has a similar tax bill for his home, which is smaller than mine, plus he has the HOA fees. Between those two, he spends $15k annually. The amount just in taxes for the fancy school system they use is 5k. I would rather live amongst poor hillbillies than to deal with that ever again. I hope you leave, Sarah.
Its nauseating to pay it. Just paid the first half today in fact 🤮. Its a bummer because my family is here and the town is so lovely. We walk there almost everyday to use the park, library, coffee shop, grocery store etc. there is zero crime and it’s beautiful. But i cant stomach the taxes and I want more land to expand my flower growing operation... we could just move 20 minutes east and have 10 acres and $2000 in property taxes. I really want to head south. Have been chatting about Tennessee with some like minded friends. Florida is another option
If you are interested in a book suggestion that lead me to move where I did, I highly recommend a book called 'Strategic Relocation: North American Guide to Safe Places', by Joel Skousen. Fair warning, he is a Mormon, so his top rated retreat location is Utah and then Idaho (both of which are in crushing droughts). But, he does a great job in breaking down every single state via natural hazards, crime, demographics, government corruption, nuclear fallout zones and other things. He even discusses overseas locations, too. There are YouTube videos of people who go through some of the content. TN is highly rated, by the way.
That sounds like an amazing book, i will definitely check it out. Utah is beautiful but I dont think I could handle the climate. I definitely couldnt do Idaho, Ohio practically kills me in the winter.
I recently left the city and I am the happiest I’ve ever been in my adult life. My wife and I are constantly reminding ourselves on one horrendous thing or another from the bygone era of our city dwelling.
I currently live in the suburbs but I’ll be moving further into the country once I’ve accumulated enough wealth. The English countryside is actually extremely based, much like our American brothers it’s the cities that are degenerate.
I’ll regroup in a few years when I’m richer and in better standing, maybe then I’ll consider contending with the nutjob left in the cities but for right now, as long as all of the institutions are against me - including the military in which I once served - then I’m doing my own thing.
You’re a good man Pete and it’s great to hear about you and your wife finding a new spot to live, I wish you all the best on your adventure. Thanks for all the great content. It’s good to know I’m not alone no matter how often it feels that’s way in this clownworld.
The wife and I find ourselves looking online at a lot of houses and small towns in southern Alabama and panhandle Florida. Kansas is just getting bluer every cycle, the taxes are out of control, and the weather sucks. I wonder what it would take to build intentional communities out of a few of these sleepy southern towns and start a free state movement of our own?
I keep looking for remote work so we can swing it as seamlessly as possible, but maybe that’s the wrong approach? Maybe what we need is to build something new?
How hard can it really be to take over a town? What would you need, a dozen families in a small town to sway the electorate? Two or three towns to take over a county? 30% of the population to take over a state?
It’s interesting, i never realized that gentrification tends to happen by the left. Does seem to be true. Why is that?
I live in a small town in Ohio that has grown considerably since I was a kid. A lot of coastal libs have relocated here for various reasons and its a lot more liberal though there is still a conservative presence. Home prices are rising fast since covid. My house literally doubled in value. Its nuts. I hope that the flood of libs abates soon.
id move to florida but my husband refuses. Alabama is appealing, an acquaintance of mine moved to a town on the beach there during covid. She was one of the most conservative people i knew here and was pro-life and took a lot of heat for it. I judged her because I was a retarded liberal then. 😂
Loved this and you don’t talk about your personal relationships too much. Congratulations! I need to get out of NYS and sooner - even if I’m poorer than I’d like to be when I leave.
If you think "staying where the power is" when you're losing (*hard*) is a good idea, you haven't even read Sun Tzu and probably shouldn't be lecturing people about strategy.
Everything you say, Pete, is totally corroborated in all of the small and smallish towns here in Kansas (of all places) which surround the 70,000 plus college town I am unfortunate enough to live in. The creeping disease of the commie rat-bastards continues to metastasize here in the plains states.
Well, where should we buy? What town should we "gentrify". I agree we are on a back foot and its because too many of us want to be "independent" of the system and we are atomized. A location to congregate and a center of power would go a long way. More than move to the country or go to a red state. We need to pick a county and go. We also need a vetting process and as much as people hate it, a written social contract or HOA of sorts. Till that happens we are all islands being eroded in a leftward current.
Im living on next to nothing and have been. I can work with my hands, have a CDL and i dont care where as long as i can sleep at night without worrying if my bike was locked up or not.
Realistic housing costs will probably be the limiting factor for most.
Real estate investors gentrify a town. They are often on the right. The issue is they don't buy real estate and fix it up for themselves. They rent it out to the inhabitants who are the slightly wealthier people who are already there or those looking to rent a nice house in that neighborhood they can easily afford. They got a good deal on a nice house in a shit neighborhood. You're talking lower middle class renters who are willing to struggle with a bad neighborhood to get a good deal. And while they wait, more investors seize the city and turn more houses into rentals. This is what drives out the poor. The first family's rent increases exponentially as the neighborhood changes, and if they are on the right, they decide to buy if they are going to spend those prices or are driven elsewhere to buy what they can afford. If they have more money than brains or if they'd rather spend money they don't have on appearances than food, they'll rent at any cost. That's the left. So, that's why the gentrification process might entail the right, but ultimately ends up in the hands of the left. Only the left sees an apartment they don't own in New York City that has no yard and costs a fortune, and thinks it's a good deal because of their like-minded neighbors or "location." What they mean by location is "fellow identitarians of color." What I think you are onto in your process of selection is the desire to move toward like minded people. The right generally doesn't consider this when moving. They typically buy near (ultimately dying) family whatever places they can afford. I think the WEF has part of it right, we'll all be renting. Only people who relish being told what to do will be happy. Unfortunately, there's a lot of those.
"Gentrifying" is just the leftist word for "repairing". Repairing small towns in flyover country is a doable thing, but best done where you're welcome. Better to make yourself welcome by starting with repairing a house and being a good neighbor, I think. Wait for real estate investors to do it and they'll turn the place into a hive.
I remember when I was in my 20s and I'd drive all over the place to visit friends in different states from my home in Ohio. Driving through the open rural areas whether it was hills or corn fields there were times I was almost brought to tears by how serene and wonderful the open space felt. I'd always wanted to live in a small town, big cities felt like zoos to me. In fact there's a good book out there called "The Human Zoo" by Desmond Morris that puts forth some fascinating information about population density and its effect on behavior.
At one point I had an argument with a friend about how I'd hate living in NYC and not having a vehicle, I'd feel stuck like I couldn't get anywhere if I wanted/needed to. She thought this was absurd, not having her own transportation was great, she was thrilled to not pay for the car payment, insurance, gas, etc. I asked her how much her cost of living was otherwise and then reminded her that I still had more financial room in my life and had the type of freedom I wanted, space and movement. She wasn't sure what else to say but you could see she was still so emotionally attached to her city.
In a lot of ways it's a problem of advertising. The Right just isn't good at talking themselves up and how good the small town way of life is for a multitude of reasons not the least of which is the mental clarity of getting out of the crazed, crowded streets and being able to (metaphorically) breathe and stretch out.
Gentrification is so strange as it's something that the left often complains about saying that it's ritzy people moving in to areas and making them more expensive but then they are often the ones actually doing the gentrifying and they don't want to accept that lifting the class of people and the skin in the game of the people that live there (i.e. less renters, more land owners) is often what it takes to improve an area.
I grew up in NJ, just outside of Philly. I moved to rural Missouri in 2006, and found my home with acreage to make my stand in this world in 2015. The situation there is untenable, too. Camden has been a wreck for decades. The town I grew up in, which is next to Camden, is getting all of the diversity it wants. I last visited there in 2019 and could barely recognize the place. I talked to my dad, who stayed right there in NJ and recently passed away, about a year ago. I told him, 'You know, I would have stayed right here, a mile from you, but the taxes, cost of living, traffic, crime, and all of the other policies that Trenton has passed over the decades has made this place into an overpriced dump'. He understood completely. His townhome had an annual property tax burden of $6.600.00. My brother, who lives a few miles from where my dad did, has a tax burden of over $7,000.00. There are no typos. My home, 2100sq ft, 75x25 workshop and 20 acres cost $135,000 and I pay $750.00 per year in taxes. It's not even a debate. If I lost my job tomorrow, I would be able to live here indefinitely.
That said, I do not know anything about the people who gentrify urban areas. They are dangerous places to move to. Being white and middle class there makes you stick out prominently. However, I wonder if now the danger in going to those places to refurbish them has grown too much, and the gentrification crews have moved to safer areas like Alabama?
The bright spot in the area in which I now live is that a lot of people who think like me are moving in, creating communities and refurbishing some of the blighted areas of town. They are religious groups, too. When I ask them what brings them here, they all say the same thing: 'Bible prophecy. End times events'. So, take that for what it is. They are an odd group, but, they are also hardworking, have large families and are not criminals. They want to keep their families safe.
The Ben Shapiros of the world, that I was foolish enough to support until I saw the cold reality of the Nov. elections, think that all we need to do in order to return this nation to some semblance of sanity is point at the people on the left and say: 'Look how crazy they are'. The problem with that thinking is that it is lazy, and even worse, cowardly. As insane as they are, they have concrete goals and plans in mind. Notice that none of the people who despise white men and women have been ejected from their positions of power? Not one. In order to take power, one must verbalize a goal and say it loudly and without apology. No aloofness. No memes. No 'owning the libs'. The Nick Fuentes types are just clownish navel gazers. In order to get serious, we need to BE serious. People gravitate to strength, which is why the left is winning. Their ideology may be a mile wide and half an inch deep, but they still hold power.
It sounds like you're in a good area, and a good frame of mind.
David Cole, who I respect immensely, wrote this article. It's probably the best expose on "Con Inc" I've ever seen. And he was deep inside with their Hollywood crew.
https://www.takimag.com/article/treading-water-with-bimbos-and-bilkers/
Excellent read. I watched David Cole's 1992 video several years ago, which made me question that event during WWII. I hate using the term 'grift', because it is used so often. However, Boreing and his company are doing just that: Using the current crisis in culture to make money, as they use the cultural platforms in order to achieve that goal.
My first glimpse into a nation who was serious was in my reading of history, specifically military history. I started going back and landed on the Crimean War, a conflict I had known only about through poems. I had not read on why the war started to begin with. I then read something so out of the norm that it captured my interest. That was the fact that the Russians wanted to conquer the Turks in order to change Istanbul back to Constantinople, and return it to Christian rule. The British, having lost their Christian roots to Enlightenment thinking, did not want the balance of power to shift to the Russians, so they sided with the Turks....the same people who tried to conquer Europe twice. The Russians lost and the rest is history. Not wanting to repeat that, a group of people with funny sounding last names made sure the monarchy disappeared forever, and locked that nation in a 70 year pit of darkness and despair. That is not the case anymore. As much as people like to mock the Russians as backwards, they are very serious people. Vladimir Putin has worked hard to eject corrupt business elements from their nation and is returning that nation, quite successfully, to its roots. It is something I admire. I am not of the Eastern mindset and understand very little of their culture, but, I do know that they absolutely and categorically reject the filth coming out of the West. They do not waste time with 'kitsch' and frivolities about their people, culture and religion. They have worked hard to renew and rebuild. I use 'Main Cathedral of the Armed Forces' as a prime example. It took two years to complete. Look at this drone footage of this masterpiece and tell me these people are anything but laser focused on preserving their civilization:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2jgeKMyL-w
Too bad the West has lost the will to live.
My taxes are $11,000 a year. 3000 square foot home. Its all for the school which we dont use. We will be elsewhere by 2025.... (i live in a wealthy suburb east of cleveland Ohio)
Oh Lord. What a waste. A friend of mine, who still lives in NJ, 'owns' a townhouse in one of those private communities. So, he has a similar tax bill for his home, which is smaller than mine, plus he has the HOA fees. Between those two, he spends $15k annually. The amount just in taxes for the fancy school system they use is 5k. I would rather live amongst poor hillbillies than to deal with that ever again. I hope you leave, Sarah.
Its nauseating to pay it. Just paid the first half today in fact 🤮. Its a bummer because my family is here and the town is so lovely. We walk there almost everyday to use the park, library, coffee shop, grocery store etc. there is zero crime and it’s beautiful. But i cant stomach the taxes and I want more land to expand my flower growing operation... we could just move 20 minutes east and have 10 acres and $2000 in property taxes. I really want to head south. Have been chatting about Tennessee with some like minded friends. Florida is another option
If you are interested in a book suggestion that lead me to move where I did, I highly recommend a book called 'Strategic Relocation: North American Guide to Safe Places', by Joel Skousen. Fair warning, he is a Mormon, so his top rated retreat location is Utah and then Idaho (both of which are in crushing droughts). But, he does a great job in breaking down every single state via natural hazards, crime, demographics, government corruption, nuclear fallout zones and other things. He even discusses overseas locations, too. There are YouTube videos of people who go through some of the content. TN is highly rated, by the way.
That sounds like an amazing book, i will definitely check it out. Utah is beautiful but I dont think I could handle the climate. I definitely couldnt do Idaho, Ohio practically kills me in the winter.
It's hard to leave family behind
I recently left the city and I am the happiest I’ve ever been in my adult life. My wife and I are constantly reminding ourselves on one horrendous thing or another from the bygone era of our city dwelling.
I currently live in the suburbs but I’ll be moving further into the country once I’ve accumulated enough wealth. The English countryside is actually extremely based, much like our American brothers it’s the cities that are degenerate.
I’ll regroup in a few years when I’m richer and in better standing, maybe then I’ll consider contending with the nutjob left in the cities but for right now, as long as all of the institutions are against me - including the military in which I once served - then I’m doing my own thing.
You’re a good man Pete and it’s great to hear about you and your wife finding a new spot to live, I wish you all the best on your adventure. Thanks for all the great content. It’s good to know I’m not alone no matter how often it feels that’s way in this clownworld.
Thank you, mate!!! If we ever get over there....
If you ever came to England you would have to come up North. I would make sure you got looked after, plus you’ve got Morgoth just up the road from me.
The wife and I find ourselves looking online at a lot of houses and small towns in southern Alabama and panhandle Florida. Kansas is just getting bluer every cycle, the taxes are out of control, and the weather sucks. I wonder what it would take to build intentional communities out of a few of these sleepy southern towns and start a free state movement of our own?
I keep looking for remote work so we can swing it as seamlessly as possible, but maybe that’s the wrong approach? Maybe what we need is to build something new?
I've been visiting small towns in Alabama. It can be done
How hard can it really be to take over a town? What would you need, a dozen families in a small town to sway the electorate? Two or three towns to take over a county? 30% of the population to take over a state?
It’s interesting, i never realized that gentrification tends to happen by the left. Does seem to be true. Why is that?
I live in a small town in Ohio that has grown considerably since I was a kid. A lot of coastal libs have relocated here for various reasons and its a lot more liberal though there is still a conservative presence. Home prices are rising fast since covid. My house literally doubled in value. Its nuts. I hope that the flood of libs abates soon.
id move to florida but my husband refuses. Alabama is appealing, an acquaintance of mine moved to a town on the beach there during covid. She was one of the most conservative people i knew here and was pro-life and took a lot of heat for it. I judged her because I was a retarded liberal then. 😂
Loved this and you don’t talk about your personal relationships too much. Congratulations! I need to get out of NYS and sooner - even if I’m poorer than I’d like to be when I leave.
100%
If you think "staying where the power is" when you're losing (*hard*) is a good idea, you haven't even read Sun Tzu and probably shouldn't be lecturing people about strategy.
Everything you say, Pete, is totally corroborated in all of the small and smallish towns here in Kansas (of all places) which surround the 70,000 plus college town I am unfortunate enough to live in. The creeping disease of the commie rat-bastards continues to metastasize here in the plains states.
Well, where should we buy? What town should we "gentrify". I agree we are on a back foot and its because too many of us want to be "independent" of the system and we are atomized. A location to congregate and a center of power would go a long way. More than move to the country or go to a red state. We need to pick a county and go. We also need a vetting process and as much as people hate it, a written social contract or HOA of sorts. Till that happens we are all islands being eroded in a leftward current.
Where depends on whether your income is mobile, how far you're willing to locate, etc.
Im living on next to nothing and have been. I can work with my hands, have a CDL and i dont care where as long as i can sleep at night without worrying if my bike was locked up or not.
Realistic housing costs will probably be the limiting factor for most.
Real estate investors gentrify a town. They are often on the right. The issue is they don't buy real estate and fix it up for themselves. They rent it out to the inhabitants who are the slightly wealthier people who are already there or those looking to rent a nice house in that neighborhood they can easily afford. They got a good deal on a nice house in a shit neighborhood. You're talking lower middle class renters who are willing to struggle with a bad neighborhood to get a good deal. And while they wait, more investors seize the city and turn more houses into rentals. This is what drives out the poor. The first family's rent increases exponentially as the neighborhood changes, and if they are on the right, they decide to buy if they are going to spend those prices or are driven elsewhere to buy what they can afford. If they have more money than brains or if they'd rather spend money they don't have on appearances than food, they'll rent at any cost. That's the left. So, that's why the gentrification process might entail the right, but ultimately ends up in the hands of the left. Only the left sees an apartment they don't own in New York City that has no yard and costs a fortune, and thinks it's a good deal because of their like-minded neighbors or "location." What they mean by location is "fellow identitarians of color." What I think you are onto in your process of selection is the desire to move toward like minded people. The right generally doesn't consider this when moving. They typically buy near (ultimately dying) family whatever places they can afford. I think the WEF has part of it right, we'll all be renting. Only people who relish being told what to do will be happy. Unfortunately, there's a lot of those.
"Gentrifying" is just the leftist word for "repairing". Repairing small towns in flyover country is a doable thing, but best done where you're welcome. Better to make yourself welcome by starting with repairing a house and being a good neighbor, I think. Wait for real estate investors to do it and they'll turn the place into a hive.
Absolutely.
I remember when I was in my 20s and I'd drive all over the place to visit friends in different states from my home in Ohio. Driving through the open rural areas whether it was hills or corn fields there were times I was almost brought to tears by how serene and wonderful the open space felt. I'd always wanted to live in a small town, big cities felt like zoos to me. In fact there's a good book out there called "The Human Zoo" by Desmond Morris that puts forth some fascinating information about population density and its effect on behavior.
At one point I had an argument with a friend about how I'd hate living in NYC and not having a vehicle, I'd feel stuck like I couldn't get anywhere if I wanted/needed to. She thought this was absurd, not having her own transportation was great, she was thrilled to not pay for the car payment, insurance, gas, etc. I asked her how much her cost of living was otherwise and then reminded her that I still had more financial room in my life and had the type of freedom I wanted, space and movement. She wasn't sure what else to say but you could see she was still so emotionally attached to her city.
In a lot of ways it's a problem of advertising. The Right just isn't good at talking themselves up and how good the small town way of life is for a multitude of reasons not the least of which is the mental clarity of getting out of the crazed, crowded streets and being able to (metaphorically) breathe and stretch out.
Gentrification is so strange as it's something that the left often complains about saying that it's ritzy people moving in to areas and making them more expensive but then they are often the ones actually doing the gentrifying and they don't want to accept that lifting the class of people and the skin in the game of the people that live there (i.e. less renters, more land owners) is often what it takes to improve an area.