Posted on 04/27/2017 10:20:52 AM PDT by Swordmaker
More than one-third of Bay Area residents say they are ready to leave in the next few years, citing high housing costs and traffic as the region’s biggest problems, according to a poll released Monday.
Of the 1,000 people polled by the Bay Area Council, 34 percent said they are considering leaving. Those who have lived here five years or less are the most likely to want to leave.
“This is our canary in a coal mine,” said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council. “Residents are screaming for solutions.”
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Check on Zillow.com for current price. It should be 2 million +
Nothing new. That's been going on since Hector was a pup.
When I was a kid growing up in California, it was a conservative, Republican state. Libs moved in from all over the country, and destroyed the place.
The proverbial canary died in the Nineties, at the latest. Some people are only just seeing it, decades later.
They'll apply more heavy handed leftist government idiocy, as a solution.
I'm a fifth-generation San Franciscan. I miss the hell out of the Bay Area and I don't have a lot of time left. I'd LOVE to move back. It's my home. Maybe when all of the ultra-left types get done ruining the place and flee to f*ck up other people's states, I'll be able to go home. (Not that I wish that on anybody else)
I have to disagree with your assessment. I would venture to guess that a great majority of those hoping to leave the area are the non-Libtards. People like me who are sick and tired of paying and paying (and paying!) for the SJWs who want to prove that they are "good people" by giving in to every minority group with a sob story. You know, groups like MS-13, ISIS, and a few others.
The "Progressives" that infest much of the Bay Area and much of Coastal California absolutely LOOOOOVE the free stuff that Moonbeam and the rest of the nannies in Sacramento are handing out.
Thanks, Jenny.
It's willed to my baby sister anyway, so it's nothing but a curiosity to me.
Stay out of Texas. All the roads are blocked by cattle drives. Gunfights every night on Main Streets. The rednecks have even taken over Austin.
That's when I first noticed the exodus out of California. After three of my friends had pulled up stakes, I brought it up to a good buddy. He just looked at me and said, "Dude, look around. Its over."
Well, I did look, and when I was done looking, I joined the exodus.
I'm originally from Monterey. Like you, I really wish I could go home one day, but I don't think it'll ever happen.
Good point - liberal elites will bring the hellhole with them... they need to stay where they are...
There was. . . Mackinac College. It's where the Up With People movement was founded back in the 1960s. They graduated one class. The Midwest Accreditation Association said it was finest college they ever accredited with the best faculty they ever saw with three Nobel laureates in a faculty of ~100 for ~300 students from all over the world. One professor had been a signatory to the UN Charter. plus two Olympic Gold Medalists, and the Poet Laureate of England. For various reasons not really associated with academics or tuition, but rather with poor management choices and a unilateral, un-reversable decision by the college's president, it went bankrupt in 1970. After that, the college limped along one more year to graduate its first and last senior class.
It is possible you've even seen part of the campus of Mackinac College. If you've ever seen the movie "Somewhere In Time" with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, the theater where Seymour was playing was the college's movie/drama theater where I worked as movie projectionist and prop manager while I was a student at Mackinac. The movie was made about five years post college years. . . and was actually completely filmed at the campus there because the college had the world's second largest sound stage attached to that theater. We used it as a gymnasium. Ten feature length movies were made there. To give you an idea of the size of the building, back in the 1950s, one of those movies required a scene in which a plane was to take off. They did not quite do that, but they did disassemble a Ford Tri-motor airplane, reassembled it inside the sound stage and then taxied it around the floor of the sound stage to get the effect they wanted.
The building had it's own power generation plant to power the lights. On occasion we fired up the power plant and provided power to the island's inhabitants gratis when power failed from the mainland.
And yes, it was cold in Northern Michigan. We were iced in from January through March as the only way off the Island was by private plane flying to Petoskey International Airport (courtesy of the fact that there was ONE North Central Airlines flight to Canada every other day from Petoskey airport!)
The college campus is now a resort called "The Inn at Mackinac" on the opposite end of the island from the Grand Hotel.
As for many now defunct colleges, you can now BUY a degree from Mackinac College for $695, and for an additional $695 the company selling that bogus degree with provide you an equally counterfeit set of transcripts for classes you never took and which were never offered or taught. They will even sell you a PhD (Piled higher, Deeper) degree for an additional payment, something that Mackinac College was never accredited to award!
All true, and don't forget that our six month summers are 130 degrees, and a/c is illegal per the Texas constitution.
Colorado is open, as there are many like you (bay area freaks) already there. They're even already stoned.
Better yet, head up to Washington State. They've got plenty of room.
Marin county, north bay. 1993. My wife and I looked around and packed the bags, never looked back and not one regret. Well one, we miss the good food!!!
The Los Angeles area was my home for 40 years, most of my life, until I moved to North Carolina two years ago. I hate it here and also wish I could go home. But I must be realistic. SoCal has become Northern Mexico for all practical purposes. The cost of living there is out of sight. And decades of Marxist rule in Sacramento have destroyed the once Golden State. My heart breaks for my one true home state.
Leave already. The newbies are the problem. I was born and raised in SF, and it was Republican until all the liberal newbies flooded in starting in the mid-1960s. The libs from the east coast ruined it for everyone here on the west coast.
I was living in San Jose when that song became popular.
1. Stop voting for people that allow anyone and everyone into the country.
or...
2. Move
I think it’s more of us then them in this poll. The klansmen around here are not to bright when it comes to money. They do not see this as an issue that can be solved with leaving. I believe rent control is the next step for this
I moved out of San Jose nearly 5 years ago and back to Misery, the state I grew up in. There are some things I really miss about the Bay Area (mountains and coasts, weather, working with innovative tech, a whole world of cuisine options, and a bunch of friends from church and work) but all the reasons I escaped are still there in spades- off the wall militant wacko liberalism, a child unfriendly culture, and unrealistic housing costs combined with wages being undercut by H1Bs.
Here in rural western Missouri people seem to have very little clue or imagination about what can be done with modern technology, food is as plain as the terrain, and weather sucks but folks vote conservative, property is cheap, your neighbors are friendly but don’t mess in your business, and you can raise your kids as you want and not many look askance at a big family. I only wish I could find the best of both worlds.
Where do I sign up for that life?
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