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Survey claims half of Bay Area residents plan to leave California
Curbed San Francisco ^
| 02/14/2019
| Adam Brinklow
Posted on 02/14/2019 1:50:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Although claims that San Francisco is hemorrhaging residents and that Silicon Valley is over are not all that theyre cracked up to be, Bay Area residents are increasingly likely to tell pollsters that theyre unhappy with the state of the state.
In February, the Chicago-based PR firm Edelman surveyed 1,500 Californians, including 500 Bay Area residents, to gauge their opinions about California and their level of trust in and satisfaction with the tech industry in particular.
The results reflected widespread disgruntlement, mistrust, and alienation:
- The upbeat news is that 62 percent of Bay Area residents say they generally trust the tech industry, although that number shrinks to just 35 percent for social media companies. Some 60 percent say that tech is in general good for California, although only 38 percent report that theyve personally benefited from it.
- Despite the general trust, 63 percent in the Bay Area say they agree with the statement, Tech companies make large profits while draining our local resources and straining our infrastructure, and feel that tech should do more to resolve chronic regional problems.
- Of those polled, 77 percent in the Bay Area say tech makes the housing crisis worse, and 76 percent say it exacerbates traffic.
- On housing, 77 percent in Bay Area call housing crisis very serious. In the state at large, its 71 percent. Fifty-three percent cite the gap between rich and poor as a very serious problem as well, up from 49 percent statewide.
- By contrast, only 37 percent of Bay Area residents complain that there are not enough well-paying jobs in their area, compared with 43 percent of folks in the rest of the state.
- And the big shocker: Of the 500 Bay Area residents polled, 49 percent agree with the statement I am considering moving away from California because of the high cost of living. Statewide, 58 percent of Millennials and 65 percent of parents echoed the sentiment.
Of course, just because people say theyre thinking about leaving doesnt mean they actually will, nor is it a given that Edelmans results actually reflect the entire region.
But the fact that the number of disgruntled responses is up significantly year over yeareight points in general and seven points among Millennialsand the fact that every competing survey reflects similar disgruntlement suggests that widespread dissatisfaction is real and will translate into action increasingly more often.
On that note, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in February that the price of a U-Haul rental in San Francisco and surrounding counties has skyrocketed. Make of that what you will.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; exodus; sanfrancisco
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To: SeekAndFind
Extend the wall along the inland CA border to stop all rats from infecting other areas like the cancer they are.
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posted on
02/14/2019 2:15:35 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: SeekAndFind
My son, his wife, their family, and their company are leaving Mountain View and CA, perhaps as early as this week.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
02/14/2019 2:21:43 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: All
For these California migrants I recommend Venezuela, or Guatemala? We don’t want their ilk in the heart land. Oh, NYC might be nice :-).
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posted on
02/14/2019 2:23:30 PM PST
by
Retvet
(Retvet)
To: SeekAndFind
Just so they don’t come here. This place is already bad enough. How about a pot-legal sanctuary city in a sanctuary state? Ugh. Run by democrats?? Duh...
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posted on
02/14/2019 2:26:52 PM PST
by
redhead
(PRAYfor little ones in pedo pipeline:child livestock: raped, tortured, and satanically sacrificed.)
To: SeekAndFind
Please stay out of Commierado. We are already in decline from earlier Cali transplants.
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posted on
02/14/2019 2:32:02 PM PST
by
bravo whiskey
(Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
To: SeekAndFind
Texas legislators need to declare an emergency and build a wall all the way to the Panhandle. We don’t want any Bay Area refugees.
To: SeekAndFind
I hope the good folks get out and leave the “big one” to eat the slime that’s left.
Which includes, of course, Google.
To: SeekAndFind
And they are turning red states blue. Problem is they are too stupid to figure out why its too expensive to live in CA.
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posted on
02/14/2019 2:38:12 PM PST
by
McGavin999
(Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a door)
To: McGavin999
They’re not stupid. They’re collaborators.
To: SeekAndFind
To: RoseofTexas
To: SeekAndFind
A better question would be , How many are will stay and fight to make California Great Again?
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posted on
02/14/2019 2:46:07 PM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Except for drug cartels who would enjoy hanging up slashed corpses.
To: A strike
But will the street feces spread too?
To: Retvet
The central valley is loaded with Trump supporters.
They are welcome here in Michigan.
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posted on
02/14/2019 3:13:28 PM PST
by
MarMema
(don't forget to stock up on dogfood)
To: SeekAndFind
Californians leaving CA is like someone stomping on a grease fire.
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posted on
02/14/2019 3:17:19 PM PST
by
bkopto
To: SeekAndFind
If they plan on voting for people like pelosi, etc., I hope they relocate to some state that’s already sold out to the “1984” plan, and stay away from Texas and Oklahoma.
To: MayflowerMadam
Its OK—all the people leaving can be replaced by people from Central America! Keep California Democrat for a thousand years! In the future the state will be divided into two groups. Those who live behind guarded wall, with guards and speak English —and run things. and Those who live in squalor in big cities—working in low wage jobs or as slave labor who exist only to vote.
To: SeekAndFind
If they own a house, they’re sitting on a Gold Mine. Any homeowner planning on staying more than 5 to 10 years is an idiot.
Here’s why I’ll be leaving in the next 2 to 5 years - I can sell my house near Facebook’s East Bay campus for four or five times what a comparable house would be near Bellingham Washington.
If I stay, there’s about a one in 300 chance every year that the Hayward Fault will rupture and there goes all my equity.
No brainer.
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posted on
02/14/2019 3:20:34 PM PST
by
Go_Raiders
(The fact is, we really don't know anything. It's all guesswork and rationalization.)
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