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.
I think your posts are right on the money. I first heard Bill Buckley make that remark about conservatives being individualists and he and you are right. We don’t have time to picket or riot - we are too busy working, raising families or following our dreams. They seem to have all the time in the world to destroy. I think this is where Trump comes in: he’s willing to get in people’s faces and fight, fight, fight. I hope future politicians take note of that but I fear most of them will simply revert to mealy-mouthed Karl Rovian pablum.
Well said.
To keep the rear wheels from sliding around during braking? Probably not, but back in the Fifties, we put chains on all four tires. Lake Effect Snow Belt area.
That’s not tailgating, its drafting!
They want the policies, but not the taxes that pay for them
Actually, Trump received nearly 4,500,000 votes. I suspect many conservatives there did not vote—thought it was pointless as the Electoral College vote would go to Clinton.
Sadly, some here are very prejudiced against anyone or anything from California—very ironic as they post on this forum located there...
“Metastasize. They’ve destroyed their own ‘Golden State’ and now move to RED STATES to start the process all over again................. “
Kind of like locust.
“This was Reagan country once”
And it might still be if it were not for the Bush mass immigration Republicans who helped the Democrats flood us with imported Democrats.
I think the immigration amnesty of 1986 was the greatest mistake Reagan ever made. It sure hurt CA, that’s what started the ball really rolling in the view of some.
So they leave the state and then demand liberal policies of high taxes and endless regulation?
Right? ☺
They love the warm fuzzy policies, but don’t want to pay for them.
They love the warm fuzzy policies, but don’t want to pay for them.
States ranked by most votes for Donald Trump in the 2016 election
1) Texas 4,685,047
2) Florida 4,617,886
3) California 4,483,810
4) Pennsylvania 2,970,733
5) Ohio 2,841,005
California is the only state among the top 5 where Trump supporters were outvoted by team Hillary. Nearly 2:1.
So why would they support the same thing if they love these liberal policies, but don’t want to pay for them?
??
“I think the immigration amnesty of 1986 was the greatest mistake Reagan ever made.”
Absolutely. For maybe three years following that amnesty there was a noticeable reduction in the number of illegals in my part of Orange County, and I’m sure that was mirrored in the rest of the state.
But then Bush the Elder took office and refused to implement the penalties in that law, and the entire 3rd world took notice and the flood was even bigger than before.
Because now they know that dimwits like Bush junior and traitors like Obama will try to give all the new illegals another amnesty. And that coming amnesty won’t just finish California, because that’s already been done, it will instead wreck the rest of the country. Well they can’t say we didn’t warn them.
Do I have this right so far?☺
Yeah, The real irony- Reagan+Bush+Bush did as much or more damage than Obama. At least the Democrats were honest about their intent.
The only people they’ll have left are illegals.
Yeah. At least Obama knows the damage that he was doing and he enjoyed it.
Reagan got suckered by the establishment GOP liars who pressed him to do the amnesty.
GHW Bush had no excuse for not enforcing the law. That elitist, laws are optional attitude seems to be a Bush Family tradition.
And amnesty pushing Dubya has been Make America Mexico since at least 1994 when he stuck his nose in our Prop 187 fight on the side of illegals.
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