I lived in a suburb of Minneapolis when the Saint Fentanyl Martyrdom riots happened and they started talking about bringing the ruckus out to suburbia that time. That was when I decided it was time to move. I had already been thinking about it for some years.
I later found out that the area I lived in at the time had been targeted for social engineering by – you guessed it – Soros-funded activists. It literally went from being a majority red area to being a majority blue area in one election cycle. And nobody thought this was weird at all. I was virtually alone in pointing out that this level of drift in 2 years was impossible. And mind you this area was well above average in terms of the populace and wealth and so on – and even there people were very complacent.
However, there were other reasons not to stay. It was getting more densely populated, the city government wanted to make it just like the urban areas. I told people that we move to 'burbs precisely because they are NOT like that. And also I got tired of the mask and lockdown mandates because of the idiotic “safety sallies” and karens who are easily manipulated by fear porn.
The last straw was in the fall of 2020 they did a second lockdown that was based on 100% lies. My friend’s GF (now fiancee) worked at one of the hospitals that was supposedly “running out of hospital beds” and it was fiction – as her other friends in nursing confirmed for the entire metro area’s hospitals. This second shutdown was 2 months and drove many businesses out of business, some of which had been there decades.
This was hellish dystopianism and I couldn’t stand it. So I moved much further out into the “country” (basically a frontier between suburbia and actual country) just like you did.