Housing woes spur Bay Area residents to ponder exodus from costly region, poll says

San Jose Mercury-News ^ | September 19, 2017 | By GEORGE AVALOS

[Night Hides Not]

We need a wall to keep Californians out of Texas.

[okie 54]

You Prune Pickers can go anywhere you want as long it is within the confines of the state’s borders

[Dilbert San Diego]

Thanks, you mentioned some of the intangible issues which are part of why people live where they live.

I feel about San Diego the way you feel about your home in the Bay area. There are problems in this area, but there are benefits too. I’m also in a position in which I bought a home decades ago, and watched it skyrocket in value.

The article mentions millennials as a key group who want to move away. Part of that could well be due to them not being able to ever see themselves afford a house there.

[onedoug]

Just keep your yankee ass out of the South!

[rb22982]

Wow that is an insane water bill! I hate our $60-$90/month (was $40-50 in my last city).

[fr_freak]

In PA, companies have fled Philadelphia crime and taxes by going to the suburbs.

Bay Area could do likewise.

They have already. In the early 90s, the Sacramento area was just "a cow town". Then the Bay Area types discovered that Sacramento existed out of desperation to find affordable places to live (every other community within 50-100 miles of the Bay Area had already become a commuter bedroom community). So, a bunch of tech companies and what-not moved large offices to Sac, and now Sac is a mini Bay Area, and by "mini" I mean a sprawling over-priced suburban wasteland just like most of the Bay Area.