Oh my gosh. The tree metaphors are so good. Those landlords - how dare they believe in their rights over the oranges? But it's also the perfect symbol of ownership in America...
Thank you, Meg, for another lovely article! I am originally from the Denver area and have some of the same feelings you have about your home state - things have changed so much since I grew up there.
I think many of us are feeling so displaced. The housing crisis is not new, but it is drastically worse than it even was when my parents were looking to purchase a home. And, of course, all those homes are built on land that was stolen from the Indigenous people who were forcibly displaced. It's a mess of longing.
I'm also from California and my parents also paid $240k for their(our) house in 2000. When they decided to move to Washington last year, to be closer to me, they sold their house for nearly as much as your parents. While I don't want to move back to the exact town I grew up in, I do feel slightly bereft knowing I couldn't go home if I wanted to. I don't feel like there is any way for my husband and I to replicate the way we grew up and I don't see that changing any time soon.
Oh my gosh. The tree metaphors are so good. Those landlords - how dare they believe in their rights over the oranges? But it's also the perfect symbol of ownership in America...
Thank you, Meg, for another lovely article! I am originally from the Denver area and have some of the same feelings you have about your home state - things have changed so much since I grew up there.
I think many of us are feeling so displaced. The housing crisis is not new, but it is drastically worse than it even was when my parents were looking to purchase a home. And, of course, all those homes are built on land that was stolen from the Indigenous people who were forcibly displaced. It's a mess of longing.
I'm also from California and my parents also paid $240k for their(our) house in 2000. When they decided to move to Washington last year, to be closer to me, they sold their house for nearly as much as your parents. While I don't want to move back to the exact town I grew up in, I do feel slightly bereft knowing I couldn't go home if I wanted to. I don't feel like there is any way for my husband and I to replicate the way we grew up and I don't see that changing any time soon.