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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In the 60’s and 70’s, the Bay Area was the place to be. Los Angeles was a running joke in California for being smoggy and crowded. Now the Bay Area looks and feels like LA with a bit more topography. The area around San Ramon is growing so fast it’s unrecognizable from just ten years ago.
Residents are screaming for solutions! Does that mean the apps and online maps identifying streets with high levels of human feces isn’t enough?
Sounds like you moved to Raleigh.
No, Charlotte. Hate it here.
What is that sanctuary state policy is costing Californians?
Here is one source
http://www.nationaleconomicseditorial/2017/02/21/costs-illegal-immigration-california/
I was born in Monterey, but spent 30+ years of my life in SoCal. I weep for what's happened to my former home.
Windflier...
You and I have a similar past. I’m going to bet that we are roughly the same age too. And it looks like we are still practically neighbors in North Texas.
My parents bought an old ranch house in Saratoga, on three and a third acres, in 1972. They got it for $20,000. It was quite a fixer-upper. They sold that house and property in 1990. The original ranch house no longer exists. I think it was torn down and replaced around 2008.
I looked up the market price for that address today. It is roughly $5.9 million.
Same here. The wife and I packed the kids and our business and headed to Texas in 2005. We knew it was a good move at the time, but it took us a couple of years living here to fully appreciate how good a choice it was.
The only regret we have, is that we left our entire extended family behind. We do miss them sometimes, but they made their choice to stay.
Pretty crazy, isn't it?
I remember seeing undeveloped one acre lots for sale in the Santa Clarita area in the late 70s for around $5,000 each. I was about 26 at the time, and paused long enough to think about buying one, but I passed on it.
In 2003, my baby sister and her husband bought a new house in that same community for half a million dollars. I'd say their lot is about 10,000 square feet. I can only imagine what a developer would have paid me for a whole acre in that area in 2003.
I left the Eastbay 51 years ago as an adult and never went back emotionally. Rural Maine has been so much better to me.
SoCal will always be home in my heart, and I also weep for that beautiful state. Just makes be despise the Left even more.
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