![]() ![]() “I’m glad that people find value in Duluth. ![]() Plenty of attention is paid to Duluth's current housing affordability crisis, and how people like Jenkins have exacerbated it. Today's story focuses on the pros and cons of climate-spurred migration, from the perspective of out-of-staters and locals. The article itself serves as nice a follow-up to this 2019 NYT story about Duluth's climate appeal. He asks between $900 and $1,400 for a two-bedroom apartment." Says Jenkins, with zero self-awareness: "We tried to bring California with us here." Tubular! But the biggest tell, and the most perilous downside of monied transplants flocking to Minnesota, comes when we discover what Jenkins did to his adoptive city's housing stock: "In addition to his four-bedroom, two-bath home, which he and Hernandez bought in 2017 for $210,000, he also collects rent on eight rental properties, comprising 18 housing units. (He's not alone: 2,494 out-of-state folks moved there in the past five years, many citing its "climate-proof" status.) There's the fact he drives a 1970 VW bus and that his family owns two restaurants selling $17 burgers and $13 vegan açaí bowls. There's the reveal that the 38-year-old "child of Orange County" brought his extended family to Duluth a decade ago in pursuit of safety from climate change. There's the lead image of him smirking with a surf board. In Friday's New York Times article headlined "Out-of-Towners Head to ‘Climate-Proof Duluth,’" readers get a slow trickle of clues about John Jenkins. The Ups and Downs of Being a Climate Oasis Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily midday digest of what local media outlets and Twitter-ers are gabbing about. ![]()
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