Census: SF Bay area losing population, LA makes big gains [Excerpted!]

excrementobee ^ | Last Updated 12:25 a.m. PDT Friday, April 9, 2004 | By JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writer

[vikingchick]

The San Francisco Bay area, long the must-go destination for speculators and visionaries of every ilk, is losing people. Meanwhile, greater Los Angeles is absorbing nearly 300,000 more people each year.

But it is the counties in and around the Central Valley that continue to see the steadiest population surge, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.

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[Simmy2.5]

Fine by me. Means less people to contend with on the roads.

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[vikingchick]

Ain't that the truth, Simmy. I'm glad they're leaving. Won't miss them at all.

[Embedded Freeper]

Well the Homosexuals don't breed.
San Francisco is Sodom and Berkeley is Gomorrah.
But the surge of criminals sneaking across out borders will soon infiltrate the Bay Area too.
I guess, what do I know?

[little jeremiah]

When it loses a little more maybe I'll move back. It used to be much better (of course, I'm talking late 60's - early 70's). I remember a nice flat in Berkely - nice meaning pretty big - for $110. Big eucalyptus tree in the back yard.

[DB]

What?!

People are leaving the liberal paradise of San Francisco?

[gcruse]

People are leaving the liberal paradise of San Francisco?

You realize SF is on a peninsula, no?  It can only grow so big, while decline is easy.  Few realize that San Jose is now the second largest city in California.  It has room to grow, and did.

High cost will drop some as it depopulates to a point where the scenery is worth the premium, then it will fill right back up again.

[DB]

I lived in Sunnyvale for 6 years.

My manufacturing business (satellite communications equipment) is in San Jose.

I've lived in central California for about 15 years now where I'm building a new home and getting all the joys of dealing with local government bureaucracy...

I know a little about the area and the mind set and I'm happy to have escaped most of it.

[FITZ]

Until the big earthquake puts it under water.

[Lakeside]

Yup, a lot of people are moving east and south of S.F. but are staying in the general area. I mean, who in the world WANTS to live in L.A.? I hated that place. S.F. is bad,I agree but the surrounding areas are *beautiful*. I loved living in Antioch.