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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
I’ll be among them in a couple of years. I grew up here and have spent most of my professional life here, but it’s getting to be about that time. I’ll miss California and the Bay Area that I grew up in - I won’t miss what it’s become.
To: SeekAndFind
If the mass exodus is true, then China will one day own California as a colony of Central and South Americans and dirt poor gringos who cannot leave. Maybe the Chicoms can do something better than American Socialists. It breaks my heart.
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posted on
02/14/2019 3:27:05 PM PST
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: Go_Raiders
If they own a house, theyre sitting on a Gold Mine.
True - my house is a few blocks from the new Apple HQ, and it's tripled in value in the last dozen years. For practical reasons I can't leave immediately, but within a couple of years, hopefully before the Big One hits.
To: SeekAndFind
Texas is full. Don’t y’all come at all! Stay in the Hell you’ve made, don’t make more Hells by bringing your progressivism with you!
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posted on
02/14/2019 3:31:11 PM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: All
We need a border wall along the California state lines to keep them from infesting other places in their love for cradle to grave management by the “State”.
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posted on
02/14/2019 3:40:03 PM PST
by
ImpBill
(Conservative little "l" libertarian)
To: shanover
“If the mass exodus is true, then China will one day own California as a colony of Central and South Americans and dirt poor gringos who cannot leave. “
Chinese investors have been buying up housing here for about a decade, driving prices up to ridiculous levels. Mass legal immigration from the 3rd world replaces Americans who no longer find California worth it. Too expensive, too crowded, too foreign, too leftwing.
The Republicans establishment ignored it and allowed it to happen, the Democrat hard left took over the state.
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posted on
02/14/2019 3:45:19 PM PST
by
Pelham
(Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
To: PeterPrinciple
“How many are will stay and fight to make California Great Again?”
Not many. CA is a lost cause.
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posted on
02/14/2019 3:51:55 PM PST
by
Dawggie
To: SeekAndFind
They need to go further West, drown and end the suffering for the rest of us or South to Venezuela where their, feces, syringes and filth will be welcomed.
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posted on
02/14/2019 4:00:24 PM PST
by
maddog55
To: SeekAndFind
Left wing socialists and communists who can no longer afford to live in their socialist utopia, so they will be exporting their socialist agenda to Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho by moving there and voting for socialists.
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posted on
02/14/2019 4:01:18 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
To: SeekAndFind
$450,696 is the median household income in Atherton, California, the wealthiest town in the United States for three years in a row now. Its in Silicon Valley and home to Googles Eric Schmidt and Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg among others. [Bloomberg]
To: Dilbert San Diego
Parts of Silicon Valley are starting to look like Manhattan. HUGE buildings right next to the sidewalk, 5 or 6 stories tall. These replaced old one story set back shopping centers with big parking lots. The character of the place has changed immensely. In many towns, you swear you are in Delhi or Beijing, not the US. The number of Asian and Indian immigrants is really staggering.
The level of rudeness, traffic congestion, and very high-risk daredevil drivers is off the charts.
To: SeekAndFind
New borns and immigrants are jacking up California’s population.
California’s population grew by 215,000 people but is still shy of 40 million.
The population hit 39.8 million as of July 1, 2018. California’s population far exceeds that of any other state; Texas ranks second with nearly 29 million people, followed by Florida and New York.
California’s growth was driven by about 200,000 more births than deaths and a net migration of 21,000, meaning more people came to the state than left. Inland counties such as Amador and Placer, at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, and Merced in the Central Valley, saw the highest growth rates.
Sonoma and Napa counties in wine country saw their populations decline by the highest rate in the state, and rural areas in inland and Northern California also lost people.
Los Angeles County remains the state’s most populous county at nearly 10.3 million people, triple that of the next closest California county, San Diego, and larger than most states. Riverside County grew by 27,000 people, the largest numeric change.
The population estimates come as the state and nation prepare for a new census count in 2020. California has added 2.6 million people since the 2010 census. The decennial count determines how many seats each state gets in Congress and how much federal money it gets for various services.
Since 2010, California has gained a net 1.3 million foreign immigrants.
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
Time for Indiana to build a wall!
We dont need those vermin here.
To: SeekAndFind
Kalif liberals go north ... do not go to Arizona
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posted on
02/14/2019 5:49:29 PM PST
by
clamper1797
(We are getting close to the last "box")
To: SeekAndFind
So long as they leave the Bay area and go somewhere else in California or one of it’s Northern properties (Oregon/Washington).
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posted on
02/14/2019 6:19:30 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
To: ExTexasRedhead
I loved SoCal, for awhile, swam at least a half-mile in the ocean every morning, ran and hiked through valleys and mountain trails, and went to California national parks as often as possible when I lived there. I miss lots of things in California, but would never move back there unless things changed dramatically. It’s very sad.
To: SeekAndFind
Colorado is full of those awful red MAGA hats,
and they talk like dumb rednecks.
Californians should STAY AWAY! Instead move to Oregon.
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posted on
02/14/2019 7:02:33 PM PST
by
TheNext
(Participation Award Winner = CoC)
To: neverevergiveup
People are bailing out of most cities run by DemonRATs. They destroy everything they touch. States headed for the RAT toilet are Oregon, Washington, Colorado, California, New York, Virginia, New Mexico, most New England states, and the list goes on. The only way to retake our nation is to defeat them in every way possible and exposure their organized voter fraud and corruption.
To: ExTexasRedhead
“The only way to retake our nation is to defeat them in every way possible and exposure their organized voter fraud and corruption.”
Agree, but we also need to defeat them at the level of education-associated indoctrination. Moral relativism and anti-Christianity is common on campus, and is sold to our youth as indicative of superior knowledge and tolerance.
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