Posted on 10/13/2021 9:25:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
SFGate reported on a recently released poll analyzing attitudes of those living in San Francisco, and it showed a remarkable number plan to flee the city in the near future. Joint Venture Silicon Valley, with the Bay Area News Group, conducted a poll of 1,610 registered voters across Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara. The report notes:
A shocking 71% of respondents said the quality of life in the greater Bay Area is worse now compared to five years ago. Fifty-six percent of respondents said they are considering leaving in the next five years — including 53% of respondents who work in the tech sector.
Russell Hancock, President and CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, told reporters during a press conference that “it’s the cost of living, high housing costs. I think that is the dominant thing.”
The poll’s findings seem to support Hancock’s theory. Most respondents (77%) indicated that high housing costs, along with cost of living (84%), are motivating them to get out while the getting’s good. However, “homelessness, wildfires and drought were also issues respondents considered,” according to SFGate.
In the poll, Hancock writes:
We’ve long been a high-stress region. Staggering housing prices, rising homelessness, a stark income divide and a host of sustainability challenges have had us on edge for some time.
He added: “But when you toss a highly infectious disease into the mix, you get a smothering amount of anxiety.”
The study also revealed that participants were split on the direction of the region, with 48% saying it is headed in the right direction and 52% saying it is headed in the wrong direction.
The poll’s findings are about as shocking as finding a crack pipe under Hunter Biden’s couch. The Bay Area has gone through a radical – and disgusting – transformation over the past decade. Under ultra-progressive governance, the area has become a haven for drug-addicted homeless individuals and forced businesses to shut down due to its lax crime policies.
Walgreens announced on Tuesday that it would be closing another five stores in San Francisco due to skyrocketing crime rates and theft happening in their locations. A spokesperson for the company told Fox Business that “[d]ue to ongoing organized retail crime, we have made the difficult decision to close five stores across San Francisco.”
The spokesperson also explained that “organized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that.”
He continued: (emphasis mine)
Retail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average. During this time to help combat this issue, we increased our investments in security measures in stores across the city to 46 times our chain average in an effort to provide a safe environment.
This announcement comes after the company was forced to shut down 10 stores in San Francisco since 2019. The California Retailers Association reported that San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento have the highest levels of organized retail crime in the country.
These issues, combined with high housing costs, would make any sane person want to leave the Bay Area. The bottom line is that progressive policies are destructive. They do far more harm than good. But what’s worse is the fact that those pushing these types of policies don’t seem to care about the folks they are harming.
Hard leftists are more than willing to enact measures that are obviously deleterious in the name of promoting “equity” or whatever other cause they are championing. The “Defund the Police” campaign is a prime example. As long as they know they won’t have to deal with the consequences of their crappy policies, they are fine with these devastating outcomes. More people will continue to flee blue areas and blue states in the years to come. This is especially true of California, which continues to lurch further and further to the left as time goes on.
Will there ever be a time when the people will become fed up with the Marxists who run the Golden State? Or will there continue to be a mass exodus? Only time will tell.
I was telling a SF guy on another board how wonderful Connecticut is.
I do not want him coming here.
If you want to see what our future will look under the Biden Democrat's, Look at SF.
Only 56%? What is wrong with the other 44%?
Rampant crime and poop covered streets tend to make people want to leave.
They had to take a poll on this?
I would think it would be patently obvious.
Crap in the streets? Barf in the BART? Commies in shitty hall?
People move all the time, but the problem with many California escapees, would be those who continue voting for the same kind of destructive policies that tore this state up.
This is proof that the elections are rigged in Blue Cities. Citizens have no voice, they make their money, figure it out and they leave. THERE ARE NO BLUE STATES.
Once they let the stolen election of Bob Dornan in 1998 stand it was all downhill from there for California.
Yes! Connecticut Is great! Please all dissatisfied Libs, please move to Connecticut!
Screw them and their poll results.
They also let the court steal proposition 187. That was it
THAT’S funny!! LOL
As a kid my grandfather would take my brother and I into ‘The City’ to see the new Corvettes at the dealership on Van Ness. Each summer we took in a game or two at first Seal Stadium and later Candlestick.
We lived in SoCal, but Papa worked at the refinery in Richmond. Back then a trip into the City was a special event.
what a waste of a beautiful area.
Too late! The getting was good in 1969.
Regards,
Really?! Your grandfather was a kid when he did that?! I mean: When he took "I" into the city?!
Regards,
Yeah, get out while the getting's good as it's only going to get much worse.
The crime rate is skyrocketing.
Brownouts are increasing every year and are only going to get worse.
And water issues will do the same.
They think rioting and looting is fine in the Progressive cities.
They think that having no energy will not be a problem down the road.
It's that Progressives don't deal with problems and let them fester. They think dirty needles mixed with human excrement is not a problem for SF residents. They think brownouts are not a problem for those on oxygen machines, They think that the water issues in California are magically going away.
In short, Progressives fit the image of Ostriches with their heads in the sand.
Flee the very Progressive States and Cities folks. It's going to get very bad, very fast. Get out while the getting's good right now!
“Once they let the stolen election of Bob Dornan in 1998 stand it was all downhill...”
My recollection, as well...
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