The electricity deregulation debacle caused lots of business in my area to go under in 1999/2000. My employer pulled most of the lighting in my office and raised the internal office temperatures to over 80 F. It was stuffy and stifling to go to the office. The 7.5 mile route to work was taking 40 to 90 minutes EACH way. The increased cost of electricity also impacted overhead costs for the company. Lots of contracts were lost to other places in the country with lower costs than San Diego. That was the situation by 2000/2001. It's much worse today.
That gives you an idea of my daily employment experience. Add the other issues noted before. It wasn't a tough decision to move. It cost me about $45,000 out of pocket to make the escape. About $16,000 of that was actual moving expense. About $16,000 was repair and real estate sales commission. The balance was apartment costs to finish a contract before the final relocation. Most of that came out of the proceeds of selling the house in Mira Mesa. I managed to shove $80,000 of my 18 years of equity into the house in Pocatello. The up side is that the cost of living in Pocatello is much less than San Diego. I'm way ahead after almost 7 years here.
“The 7.5 mile route to work was taking 40 to 90 minutes EACH way.”
Oh, you would have to just shoot me already! Sounds worse than that freeway by Getty Museum-405?
Employment is an issue for us-we would probably have to just wait for retirement. We do have to commute here, and housing in our area is outrageous.
There’s a lot of reasons to get out that have nothing to do with politics.