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.
Damn right :-)
They’re out in the boonies with a few in the horsey part of Marin. They’re not going anywhere.
CA is a liberal paradise. Now you're saying all these liberals who are leaving CA, can't stand liberal policies and high taxes. And then you alleged when all these liberals leave the state, they want all those high taxes and liberal policies back?....lol
No sale.
They are braindead or brainwashed or both.
This particular family is my bosses sister, so I can’t openly debate her without repercussions. All I can do is listen and ignore her spouting liberal crap.................
Nope, not buying this cow flop. No sale.
Whether you do or not is immaterial.
It’s true........................
It sounds like Dabak might actually be a conservative. Being that she’s moving to Tennessee, I would certainly hope so.
What RB is saying is true. We here in NC don’t get too many CA economic refugees fleeing high cost of living and high taxes, well maybe Asheville does but it’s not all that common. What we get are NY, MA and NJ. They don’t put two and two together, they bring the very same mindset that ruined their former home states here, there’s never a bond issue or tax increase they don’t like. “It’s so cheap we can afford it.” They’re turning the entire southeastern coast purple heading to blue. CA is doing the same to NV, AZ, CO and soon TX. You know it’s true, look at the voting patterns over the course of the past 20 years.
And if you are not going at least 95 mph on that road, you better stay in the “slow lane”.
Nashville is a liberal area in a Red state.................
Government and intelligence, large city and pretty. Neither goes together. You can have every single one of them, they are nothing but rat traps.
“That’s like 20 major cities and 1000X the landmass.”
I’m speaking of the narrow strip along the coast, and primarily the cities of D.C., Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. True, that is four cities to one, but if you’ve been to the Philadelphia Art Museum, anything in SF will disappoint (And that’s without even talking about the National Gallery or the Met).
If you’ve been to NY Chinatown, the Chinese food in SF will disappoint. If you’ve had French Cuisine in DC, SF will disappoint. If you’ve had Italian in NY or South Philly, SF will disappoint. If you’ve wintered in RI, seafood in SF disappoints. And so on, and so forth.
Now, I used to love SF, and could again. It’s beautiful, and if it were a sane thing to do, I’d like to live there. But it is tops in nothing—except, possibly, charm. Whatever SF brags about, somebody else does it better.
“As for MIT, when was the last time they got a patent for something that actually changed the way people live for the better?”
I don’t know.
“The entire tech industry is centered in the suburbs of San Francisco.”
How far out are you extending those “suburbs,” down to Santa Barbara? Silicon Valley is not a part of San Francisco.
No it’s not. Want an example of CA hysteria?
A few days a ago 4 cops were shot up in Colorado. The entire thread turned into a blame CA thread. Yet CA had nothing, zero, zip to do with the story or the shooter.
Don’t believe me. Look for yourself.
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California is a beautiful place.
I was born there.
I was stationed there in the Marine Corps in the 70’s.
Rode my motorcycle all over Southern California, even to Mexico.
It’s the majority people there that are the source of all the bad stuff that goes on. People make the place, for good or bad.
I have lived in Maryland, just outside of DC, Atlanta and South Florida. Each place has its good people and bad people. I left South Florida during the Cocaine Wars. Too dangerous to live there.
NW Florida Panhandle was very conservative when we moved here in the early 80’s. Now it’s being overpopulated by liberals moving here to retire and tell us how we’re backward hillbillies and they know how better than us to run our government. They are blind and will never change. They can’t wait to make this place just like the place they left because it was a shithole..............................
California is a beautiful place.
I was born there.
I was stationed there in the Marine Corps in the 70’s.
Rode my motorcycle all over Southern California, even to Mexico.
It’s the majority people there that are the source of all the bad stuff that goes on. People make the place, for good or bad.
I have lived in Maryland, just outside of DC, Atlanta and South Florida. Each place has its good people and bad people. I left South Florida during the Cocaine Wars. Too dangerous to live there.
NW Florida Panhandle was very conservative when we moved here in the early 80’s. Now it’s being overpopulated by liberals moving here to retire and tell us how we’re backward hillbillies and they know how better than us to run our government. They are blind and will never change. They can’t wait to make this place just like the place they left because it was a shithole..............................
Good luck. The second I retire, I am moving out of California to live free among sane people.
You can stay here and go down with the ship. Life is to short for me to live in hell and fight a futile battle where there are 7 registered Democrat voters for every 4 Republican voters. And that is getting more lopsided each year.
Soon it will be a 2 to 1 ratio.
There is no fight. Republicans are swamped in CA which is why the Democrats have an ever-increasing super majority without a single solitary Republican holding state wide office.
There is no fight. We are in a gulag and our masters have us working night and day to provide for them.
There is no fight, merely slow suicide.
Good luck with that.
-PJ
It is too expensive to live there.
Everything costs a lot of money.
Cannot build.
Too many laws and restrictions.
Once again, CA is a liberal paradise. You're suggesting all these liberals who are leaving CA, can't stand liberal policies and high taxes.
And then you alleged when all these liberals leave the state, they want all those high taxes and liberal policies back?....lol
Get real.
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Exceptional post.
I was born in San Francisco and have lived in California for my 6 decades on earth.
California was a good Republican state at least through the 1980s.
From 1943 to 1999, we had onle 2 Democrat Governors.
It has only been since 1992 that California has gone to the Democrat president each election.
Now San Francisco was an unholy immoral mess long before 1992, but at least its impact on the state was held in check. Today, faggotty, sanctuary, godless San Francisco is the bellweather for the state.
I cant leave this communist shithole soon enough.
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