Posted on 05/03/2016 8:14:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For my money, San Francisco is the most beautiful city in America. But that hardly matters to residents fighting sky high housing costs, traffic gridlock, and a quality of life that has been declining in recent years.
A survey by the Bay Area Council reveals that 34% of residents would leave the city if they could. Surprisingly, those who have moved to the city in the last 5 years are more likely to look for greener pastures.
"We can whine about this, or we can win by solving our traffic and housing problems," Carl Guardino, president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, told The Mercury News. "The last time the Bay Area had seemingly solved its traffic problems was the worldwide recession of 2008. A recession is not how we want to solve our traffic and housing problems."
People who have lived in the area for five years or less are those most likely to start packing their bags, according to the report. San Franciscans with lower income and those putting more of their income toward housing expenses were also listed among those prepared to leave.
Residents noted that the most serious problems facing the Bay Area included high cost of living, poverty and income inequality, crime rates and homelessness.
The biggest concern for the Bay Area is the potential loss of its young labor force, though.
"These younger folks, millennials, are our future workforce; this is our labor market; this is our talent pool," Rufus Jeffris, vice president of communications for the Bay Area Council, told CNBC. "So, our economy is fueled by our talent and when folks are saying that they are going to leave, that can create a real problem for us
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I want all of those libs to stay right where the are at.
Me too. Stay right where you are and reap what you’ve sown.
Move them all to Hawaii, it is the capitol for free loaders.
I hear tell one of the very worst was born there.
Hey Libs. The reason that San Francisco, which should be a natural paradise, is so miserable is because of YOU. YOU caused the problems. You always do. Give SF another 30 or 40 years and you’ll have it looking like Detroit.
It would be curious to get in the mind of these folks and see where exactly they think ‘urban-villa’ is next.
I read the other day that Vegas is working hard to talk the Raiders into coming there (promises of an arena), and they’d like to find some pro-baseball team.
The Golden State Warriors are on the other hand — the best basketball team in the planet.
Stay where you are. It’ll get better. Liberalism is like fine wine. It takes time to get good and you’re almost there! in 20 years or so, absolute paradise!
There’s no other place left to go
San Francisco.
Welcome to the Hotel California.
Only because of the weak nature of the NBA today. In terms of quality four-star teams....the Warriors (I think) are the only team capable of playing at that level. There might be five or six three-star teams, and the rest of the league is mostly squads of two-star juvenile NCAA players who ought to be playing for some Italian league team. I look back at what was existing in the NBA in the 1970s, and it amazes me how weak the entire league has become.
I read an article recently, by someone who goes to SF a lot, and he said the city is beautiful, energetic, etc.
But he also lamented that they have become so liberal in dealing with the homeless, that many parts of the city have a distinct aroma of urine in the air.
For whatever benefits or advantages people see in living there, relating to jobs or other factors, it’s clear that many see a downside to what we might term “quality of life” issues.
How many of you who like your hometowns, would be happy with your residences if it smelled like P*** everywhere? Or if you were confronted with homeless everywhere?
Of course, many some in SF think that the problem is that they just haven’t been liberal enough; that they should provide luxury condos for the homeless to get them off the street.
Thought ‘bears’ did it in the woods!
RE: Welcome to the Hotel California.
“You can check out any time you like but you can never leave”?
I was there recently. Only 34%?
It’s not too bad if you’re wealthy and live upwind from Nancy Pelosi’s house.
There is no affordable housing there for young professionals starting their careers. Only rich, white, liberal elites can afford to live there and they don’t want any affordable housing options built in their back yards. Same situation with Portland and Seattle. They can remain in their ivory towers and boast about how compassionate they are toward the great unwashed, but never have to rub shoulders with any of them.
Well said.
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