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I see what you’re saying but the “incentives” to stay put are things like disability services, laws that aren’t hostile to LGBTQ+ folks, reproductive health access including but not limited to abortion, etc.
It’s not all about lattes and craft beer and “entertainment options”. https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1337155116521181187
It’s not all about lattes and craft beer and “entertainment options”. https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1337155116521181187
This is why I haven’t done it: I am career civil service in a blue state. My benefits covered mental health care at parity before the mandate and now they cover the medical care my transgender son needs without reviews for “is this just cosmetic?”
I need to keep that coverage.
I need to keep that coverage.
When we are in a position to move again (and probably after the next redrawing of congressional districts) I DO plan to move from a solidly blue district to a swing district if feasible. There are a few nearby enough that it might work depending on where lines get drawn.
There are a lot of people I know who live in or near large blue cities because they cannot drive and thus need to be in a place where public transit is a viable and non stigmatized option to commute to work and to otherwise go about their lives.
Pre-Obergefell, I knew a lot of families of same-gender couples with kids whose decisions about vacations (let alone relocations) were predicated on “if something Goes Wrong, will my child’s non-biological parent be considered a legal stranger?”
Given SCOTUS, that fear remains.
Given SCOTUS, that fear remains.
