As a disproportionate number of people who purchased homes in Tahoe in 2020 were tech employees from the Bay Area, locals worry about “Aspenification of Tahoe”
Rachel Levin is a San Francisco-based journalist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker … Tweets: @rachellevinsf , @chrisasolomon , @sesmith , @skiingrogge , @outsidemagazine , @talkpoverty , @hkanji , @tahoevibe , and @sundaylongread Tweets: Rachel Levin / @rachellevinsf : People never honked before. “I was like, Are you really honking at me because I'm not driving fast enough out of the Raley's parking lot?” says a local chef. “You're in this dreamy place! And you're HONKING?” Season 1 of Zoomtown up @outsidemagazine! https://www.outsideonline.com/ ... Chris Solomon / @chrisasolomon : I missed this when it appeared this week. For all the fun it pokes at newbies watching YouTube to learn how to rake pine needles, the last line is what matters: https://www.outsideonline.com/ ... S. E. Smith / @sesmith : ‘They just kept coming. The day-trippers, Airbnbers, second-home owners, and unmasked revelers.’ A line that could describe so many communities in America, but this one is Tahoe. https://www.outsideonline.com/ ... Mike Rogge / @skiingrogge : This is a big complicated issue but @rachellevinsf nailed the vibe. The folks sitting next to me on this plane must've wondered why I was nodding so often. Well done, Rachel. https://www.outsideonline.com/ ... Outside / @outsidemagazine : “Who's a local? Someone with duct tape on their Gore-Tex? Who belongs in a mountain town? In a city? In this country?” https://www.outsideonline.com/ ... @talkpoverty : Service workers in the West's Zoom towns can't afford to live there as newcomers from the city squeeze them out. https://www.outsideonline.com/ ... Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : The “shit show” of Lake Tahoe, which is now a “Zoom town” for monied Bayfolk looking for... more space? More nature? An escape from themselves? Problem is they don't know how to shovel snow. https://www.outsideonline.com/ ... Tahoe Vibe / @tahoevibe : Nearly all of us were new to Lake Tahoe at some point. Important to keep perspective that this is Washoe country. The Washoe have lived in the area for 10,000+ years. @outsidemagazine @rachellevinsf https://www.outsideonline.com/ ... @sundaylongread : One of the pandemic's many side effects: white-collar flight, and demographic agita resulting from geographic rearrangement. @rachellevinsf welcomes us to the “shit show” of Lake Tahoe, which is now a “Zoom town” for monied Bayfolk. https://www.outsideonline.com/ ...