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 shes part of the mass exodus that is showing no signs of slowing down.
The retired engineers 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 its 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. Thats changing.
Joint Venture Silicon Valleys 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 cant even contemplate getting into the housing market here, Hancock said. And I dont 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 dont like it here anymore. You know, we dont 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.
Sam Brannan, he bought all the picks and shovels in Sacramento before going to San Francisco and broadcasting the discovery.
Are the queers dispersing?
Distressing........................
It took her 40 years to figure it out?
Nashville already is a shit brindle stain on almost totally red state.
Ack! Please don’t come to Tennessee.
“If I remember correctly, during the 1849 gold rush a shovel cost $50, or something like that.”
Yes, It’s appropriate that the 49ers now occupy Levi Stadium. Levi Strauss stuck gold in California.
Actually they tried it with everyone who every worked in CA.
A federal court shut that down a long time ago.
California is physically beautiful. The weather there is spectacular.
Even the quality of sunlight there is different.
I was in Polar Star, and we were steaming down the Pacific Coast toward San Diego for REFTRA.
I had the opportunity to nap before watch, and in getting ready for watch you walk through the ship and decks doing an inspection before you assume OOD.
I came out on deck, and the sun was 10 degrees above the Western horizon. The rays were golden off the two foot seas, and the rays hit my face like a towel fresh out of a dryer.
It struck me, without having seen the chart, that we were likely off of SF somewhere.
Went up on the bridge to take my fix, and sure enough, we were just west of the Farallon Islands, which is due West of SF.
I lived there a long time, and I’m smart enough to know you can’t go back, but when I visit it is every bit as physically beautiful as it was when I grew up there.
It’s a hard place to leave on that basis.
Yeah...don’t come to TN with all your fn warped views....
“They’ve destroyed their own ‘Golden State’ and now move to RED STATES to start the process all over again.”
Well, except the state is not destroyed.
There’s a big difference between the Bay Area Megalopolis and the rest of Northern CA.
Anyone with a modicum of curiosity and intellect would know that.
What is wrong with this picture?.........It may take you a minute or so.......
There are a lot of vacant homes, but they’re not on the market. Absentee owners. It’s offshore money, largely China, that is driving insane residential real estate prices on the west coast, not any actual domestic supply and demand. When China goes boom economically, west coast residential real estate will too.
Yes, I realize that Northern California is way different than the southern half. But they aren’t the ones moving out...................
If thats an Oregon plate it explains much.
I’m not sure what state it is...................
I was born in San Diego........................
Well...at least it might be able to stop a little better.
Eastern scum like Boxer and Pelosi insinuated themselves in government.I saw the same phenomenon in Wisconsin with invading pestilence from MA. Ditto MN.
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