Posted on 05/02/2016 8:48:44 AM PDT by rktman
Residents of the California's Bay Area are eyeing the exits, according to a survey by the Bay Area Council.
Some 34 percent of San Francisco-area residents are considering leaving because of high housing costs and traffic, The Mercury News reports.
"We can whine about this, or we can win by solving our traffic and housing problems," Carl Guardino, president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, told The Mercury News. "The last time the Bay Area had seemingly solved its traffic problems was the worldwide recession of 2008. A recession is not how we want to solve our traffic and housing problems."
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Bad news for the rest of US.
Our house is sold, closing is today, bags are packed, U-Hauling it down to San Diego next weekend, adios San Francisco.
If they’d get rid of the democRats, they wouldn’t need to leave!
Prediction: They are gonna leave their blue state / area for a red state / area that is cheaper to live and once they get there they will push for all the policies in their new home’s local / state government that create all the unintended consequences that forced them to leave their liberal paradise in the first place.
Like Locusts... Well Liberal Locusts...
Please don’t come to the South. We don’t want you or your opinions.
Obama wants to build housing developments for the poor in more affluent areas. I believe this would be a great place to start. The liberal Bay Area needs some projects.
LOL! I’m sure the traffic will be much better in a different “San”. Look up my friend Bob when you get to town. :>)
What ... being queer is not good enough ?
Democrats never blame the misery they create on themselves.
Here’s an area they literally destroyed. They want the whole state to be like that, but they’re leaving.
Brilliant... /s
Yep. I say lock 'em in.
The sane conservatives should have left years ago.
No worries, San Francisco. There are many folks south of the border who are quite willing to take the places of those who leave your city.
Just don’t ask for any documentation, or for any skill sets. That’s all so last century.
The big employers in the area try to help ease the traffic with huge luxury busses to take their employees to work every day.
Of course, those are targeted by “activist groups” for vociferous protests on the grounds that ... what? What are the grounds on which they are protested? That they are “elitist,” or “exclusionary,” right?
I did, 1989.
Which is worse for the areas they move to? Liberal refugees from San Francisco or Muslim Refugees from Syria?
Wow, that is a real Hobson’s choice.
No offense to anyone who hails from this area (it is beautiful) but it always gave me a creepy sort of feeling. Like I needed a long, hot shower after being there.
Maybe God will provide another earthquake of the 1912 genre’ to help them decide.
Canada has lots of room.
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