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.
Well, I have the same deal here with my love of NYC. It isn’t as beautiful as San Fran but it has all the other things you mention. City people have a rough time here.
Front wheel drive. Chains on the rear.
We need to put RFID tags on them to see where the will ruin the next state. Looks like Texas and Arizona are taking the hit.
Yes you are correct. It was a fed law passed in 96 from what I gather.
My wife drives a Miata and when a snow flake (just one) is forecast it stays in the garage. Same with my 03 Mach1 Mustang.
Yep!...................
You have to find your pockets. Out near Occidental, that area, there are a bunch of people living there that are definitely strange, but they are much more libertarian and conservative, believe it not.
Think John Perry Barlow. Stockton and Sacramento, near Truckee and Loyalton. Nice places with good people.
Even Napa Valley has its people. Things are changing, and in the big cities, yeah, its still a mess. They still think they can leech off the rest of their state for the glory of living in their socialized utopia.
Seattle is sitting down with Amazon TODAY on this very topic. Three of the commies on the Seattle City Council are refusing to go, which is the point.
They ex-wife of a Microsoft millionaire, a shrill commie named Sawant, is the spiritual leader of the red harridans there. They wanted to levy a $100 tax on every employee at Amazon, just because they were working at Amazon. Most of them live right near where they work, so they are already paying through every orifice.
When Amazon sets up in Atlanta, I’m going to laugh a lot. I laughed quite a bit when Boeing announced their plant in SC too, and when they moved their headquarters to Chicago (although that isn’t working out that well for them of late).
Mill Valley - what a place. Santa Cruz is still special.
It’s a pendulum. Everybody overplays their hand eventually. Yeah, I’m mixing my metaphors along with my medication it seems.
I’ve got the advantage of living in the same house I grew up in, in the wine country. Been here for 50 of my 56 years, so my property taxes wouldn’t buy me a decent lunch at the French Laundry. Second generation San Francisco native.But also have a place in Montana that we rent out. no debts, no kids. Staying for the weather until I retire, then it’s off to Costa Rica or Italy ;-)
Insane to the point that residents are fleeing to other parts of the country because they can no longer afford to live there.
I was in ships home-ported in the Bay Area. I will give you
beauty, but the region from D.C. to Maine is far, far, superior in food, arts, and sports. Has someone outstripped MIT in science and technology?
Don’t give up dreaming! It is worth putting up with the politics here...
Yep. IN the wall.
It would be good if you actually read the words in articles, and not just look at the pictures... try it sometime... :-)
Yep - they ruin a place with their liberal “values” and it gets so they can’t stand it any more so they move on like locusts to savage the next fertile field...
The writer obviously has NO IDEA of the cost of childminding services in the city.
Democrats/liberals leaving Blue for Red blame crime, politics in general. But they are not smart enough to blame Democrats, Democrat politics and Democrat policies.
Until Republicans/Conservatives re-educate immigrants to Red states in why these people moved from Blue to Red, the Red will turn Purple ... and then Blue.
Texas in play? Georgia in play? Yes. Not due to non-citizen immigrants...but due to citizen immigrants from the Blue.
By CA standards those folks are conservatives.
They did many years ago. A case was brought against the state and the state lost. Now pensions are no longer taxed if they no longer live in the state.
Such excellent points!! I have always applauded entrepreneurs but the money goes to their head and they really ruin civilizations. Mill Valley is in their own little world and almost have no idea what else goes on in the world except for watching CNN. Unless you have been there for 30 years or are filthy rich you are in a nasty zone of just trying to live a normal life. It has such remarkable beauty yet is so filthy.
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