Posted on 02/09/2018 7:50:40 AM PST by Red Badger
SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – The number of people packing up and moving out of the Bay Area just hit its highest level in more than a decade.
Carole Dabak spent 40 years living in San Jose and now she’s part of the mass exodus that is showing no signs of slowing down.
The retired engineer’s packing up and calling it quits about to move to the state of Tennessee.
“I loved it here when I first got here. I really loved it here. But it’s just not the same,” Dabak said.
Of course people come and go from the Bay Area all the time, but for the first time in a long time, more people are leaving the Bay Area than are coming in. And the number one place in the country for out-migration is now, right here.
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Russell Hancock with Joint Venture Silicon Valley said, “Silicon Valley has been this place that is growing. And it was mostly due to people relocating here and relocating from other parts of the world. That’s changing.”
Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s own study of the out-migration says workers are moving to Sacramento, Austin, and Portland due to a number of factors. But topping the list is the high cost of housing.
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“You can’t even contemplate getting into the housing market here,” Hancock said. “And I don’t mean just service workers, but highly skilled professionals. The tech elite are having a hard time affording reasonable housing in Silicon Valley. That makes it difficult for employers to recruit.”
Operators of a San Jose U-Haul business say one of their biggest problems is getting its rental moving vans back because so many are on a one-way ticket out of town.
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Dabak cites crowding, crime and politics as the reasons for her own exodus.
“We don’t like it here anymore. You know, we don’t like this sanctuary state status and just the politics,” she said.
She plans to sell her home for about $1 million, buy a much larger place near Nashville for less than half that and retire closer to family and friends.
“but the region from D.C. to Maine is far, far, superior in food, arts, and sports”
That’s like 20 major cities and 1000X the landmass.
As for MIT, when was the last time they got a patent for something that actually changed the way people live for the better?
The entire tech industry is centered in the suburbs of San Francisco. For better or worse, depending on your perspective, they changed the world.
I can’t afford it. I’m now looking down south. My husband has an appt. with real estate agents next month. Beautiful houses, low taxes and I vote CONSERVATIVE!
Pretty sure it is. I’m in WA state and see them all the time.
Typical. I’m now getting private messages screeching about San Francisco. Why are they afraid to say it openly?? We’re in the minority not them!
A remarkable essay,Allen.
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“Insane to the point that residents are fleeing to other parts of the country because they can no longer afford to live there.”
The story was about on elderly retired woman, who sold her home for $1 million, moved to Tennessee and bought a bigger home.
In SF her house was likely paid off, meaning no mortgage cost. Taxes in CA are based on Prop. 13 which means very low.
She could have very easily afforded to stay, but chose to leave.
The people driving up housing prices, are very highly paid workers, who moved there for the high pay.
As I stated, if the prices are too high, prices will decline. Several have posted this is not (yet) the case.
People pay a lot to live on/near the California coast. Check prices in Santa Barbara, Carmel, LaJolla, Malibu, Santa Monica, Palos Verde Penninsula etc.
San Francisco in the 50’s was a paradise. Marin Co was more of the same. I speak from experience. The rot set in with the hippie invasion of haight-ashbury and went down hill from there. In spite of it all San Francisco is beautiful.
I was there in the 1970s and 80s (visiting). I thought it was just wonderful. I didn’t see any homeless but did see the hippies. If you can believe it, a wealthy family member put me up at the Mark Hopkins Hotel - at that time, I was living in LA. I loved the fog, the cool weather...everything!
Leftists are like parasites. They move on to a new host and bring their politics with them.
Never once have I heard liberal leftist in CA say they can't stand CA liberalism and want to leave. This is not what's happening. Most of those leaving are not leftist.
And who chained her six children to a post in the basement for six years before finally drowning them
I’m familiar, truth_seeker. I’m also aware that CA was badly impacted by the housing crash of 2008. I know CA has long been boom or bust, the foreclosure laws there actually encourage it. I know way too much foreign money, specifically China, has inflated the cost of residential real estate there. You sound as if you’re vested somehow in that cost continuing to increase. I’d suggest divesting sometime soon, especially if you’re leveraged but to take your profit even if you’re not. Don’t get greedy.
I hope that you are right and the ‘Leftists’ stay in California....but even Leftists want to keep their own money..................
If the CA exodus is conservative then CA conservatives are like MA conservatives. They’re liberal practically anywhere else.
It’s so frustrating. How can they not see the negative effects of liberal policies?
This thread is full of cold mean people.
Look, FReepers, this site itself is run by conservative Californians. Have you seen the voting in CA? The unenfranchised conservatives here exist. Look at the sheer numbers of us. We were gerrymandered and propositioned (with lying commercials to the Gullibles) and outnumbered by people who don’t even belong here.
It’s offensive to act as though there aren’t lefties everywhere and as if those of us who want to leave, your fellow conservatives, are gong to ruin your states.
This was a beautiful place, many of us have roots here, but how can we stay? Where do you suppose your fellow decent conservatives who happened to be born or live in CA should go? No room at the inn for us, eh?
Ahh yes, the Mark Hopkins..Top of the Mark...good times, good times. Glad you had lovely visits. San Francisco is beautiful.
So you’re clearly suggesting these alleged liberals that are leaving CA do so because they hate leftist taxes and leftist policies?
Right?
Yes, it is.
The CA conservatives I know aren’t about to leave under any circumstance, it’s their home come what may, they’ll make a stand if they have to. They’re not in cities, though.
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