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San Francisco Bay Area residents are growing even more dissatisfied, poll says
SF Gate ^ | March 31, 2022 | By Eric Ting

Posted on 03/31/2022 6:50:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A recent poll of Bay Area residents found that 64% believe the region is on the "wrong track" — a record high in the eight-year history of the poll.

The poll was conducted by Bay Area firm EMC Research on behalf of the Bay Area Council, a group of business leaders in the region.

Survey respondents were asked the question, "Do you feel things in the Bay Area are going in the right direction or do you feel things have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track?" Sixty-four percent replied with the "wrong track," 21% replied with "right direction" and 15% said they didn't know.

The survey has been conducted every year since 2014, and the share of respondents selecting "wrong track" has never been higher.

The top concerns for residents are homelessness, housing and crime/safety, in that order. Just 2% of respondents listed the COVID-19 pandemic as their top concern.

The percentage of respondents who said they are "likely to move out of the Bay Area in the next few years" is unchanged since last year at 48%.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: crime; drugs; inflation; woke
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1 posted on 03/31/2022 6:50:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yet Pelosi Galore is still in power.

Go figure.


2 posted on 03/31/2022 6:51:00 AM PDT by sauropod (So may we start? When can we start?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Screw ‘em. Let them live in the septic pit they have created for themselves.


3 posted on 03/31/2022 6:51:36 AM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Context. They are dissatisfied with the current crop of communists. They would never consider voting Republican, they just want better communists.


4 posted on 03/31/2022 6:52:10 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’ll keep voting Democrat. It’s what they do.


5 posted on 03/31/2022 6:52:50 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: fwdude

Its like the former Soviet Union - everyone quietly accepts that their system has failed and life is getting worse, but everyone carries on and repeats the slogans anyway.


6 posted on 03/31/2022 6:53:32 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

The former Soviet Union?


7 posted on 03/31/2022 6:56:04 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I predict EMC Research will be accused of spreading false or misleading information soon.


8 posted on 03/31/2022 6:56:08 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I no longer recognize the valley I grew up in. Its like a foreign country.


9 posted on 03/31/2022 6:57:52 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: sauropod
Yet Pelosi Galore is still in power.

Liberals are incapable of recognizing the consequences of their actions. They will deplore what's happened to the Bay Area and move elsewhere, and continue voting Democrat.
10 posted on 03/31/2022 6:58:32 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And yet they will still vote fore the same people and party that got them there.


11 posted on 03/31/2022 6:58:40 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: PGR88

I liked the response from the 15% that said they don’t know. I suspect that most of the population there would fit that category!


12 posted on 03/31/2022 6:59:13 AM PDT by bboise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Winners of the ‘slow learner award’ unanimously bestowed upon sf voters.


13 posted on 03/31/2022 6:59:14 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti-Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Turds complaining about life in the toilet bowl.


14 posted on 03/31/2022 6:59:36 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: brownsfan

Yep. They will still insist that the right socialists will fix things.


15 posted on 03/31/2022 7:00:08 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: bboise

More accurately, the options are “wrong track”, “right direction” and “don’t give a sh!t”


16 posted on 03/31/2022 7:05:56 AM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wall them in. Force them to live in what they voted for.


17 posted on 03/31/2022 7:06:00 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

21% is probably equal to the number of chronically insane, e.g. hardcore democrats.


18 posted on 03/31/2022 7:07:41 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The commie voters in SF are far more likely to blame their misery on Trump/Republicans rather than the people they voted into power for decades. That’s how sick and delusional they are.


19 posted on 03/31/2022 7:07:50 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: HighSierra5
The former Soviet Union?

A good example of the power of long-term, one-party politics and ideological group think. Obviously SF doesn't have gulags - not yet, anyway.

20 posted on 03/31/2022 7:08:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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