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    Bay Area exodus? Nearly 50 percent of Californians say they want to move out soon

    -A whopping 46 percent of California Bay Area residents fed up with the region’s high cost of living and soaring home prices are planning to pack their bags and move out in the next few years, a poll has found.

    The poll, conducted by the Bay Area Council, which describes itself as a business-sponsored, public policy advocacy organization, also found that homelessness and heavy traffic are among the things that most irk residents who live there.

    “This is the trend we’ve been observing. Two years ago, it was 34 percent and last year it was 40,” the group’s president, Jim Wunderman, told KTVU about the increasing amount of those polled indicating that they want to get out.

    The majority of the 1,000 polled said they have lived in the region for more than 20 years and increasingly believe that life in the Bay Area is heading in the wrong direction, despite mixed feelings about its economy...

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/04...oll-finds.html

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    I saw this!!

    You know that Pelosi and Squirmer will be working an angle to blame it on Trump.

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    Leftists destroy EVERYTHING they touch.
    Indeed.

    Whatever the Left Touches It Ruins




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    I grew up there. Recently an older two bedroom house in Sunnyvale sold for $1.2 million.

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    I’m not going to lie, it’s getting tough to survive here. The population has surpassed 8.7 million but there are not enough places to live. There’s an extreme housing shortage. A shack will run you 1 million. I have a friend who works for a tech company in San Jose. He rents 1/2 of a bedroom (with a curtain draped across) for $1,100 a month. A one bedroom house to rent runs $5000- $6,000. The environmentalist have a chock hold on everything so no one can build.

    There’s also a very strong spirit of intellectual elitism. It’s nauseating.

    I do like the weather, the ocean, mountains, living close to the sierras, but I would get out if I could. I can’t. It’s too personal and complicated to get into, so we will just fight on and get through it.
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    we all want to leave.. but it's difficult to get some of the family to go.
    I told D we need to be gone by 2022.. they've got a wacky (seriously wacky) water rationing thing starting then.


    I'm afraid we'll still be here...


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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    -A whopping 46 percent of California Bay Area residents fed up with the region’s high cost of living and soaring home prices are planning to pack their bags and move out in the next few years, a poll has found.

    The poll, conducted by the Bay Area Council, which describes itself as a business-sponsored, public policy advocacy organization, also found that homelessness and heavy traffic are among the things that most irk residents who live there.

    “This is the trend we’ve been observing. Two years ago, it was 34 percent and last year it was 40,” the group’s president, Jim Wunderman, told KTVU about the increasing amount of those polled indicating that they want to get out.

    The majority of the 1,000 polled said they have lived in the region for more than 20 years and increasingly believe that life in the Bay Area is heading in the wrong direction, despite mixed feelings about its economy...

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/04...oll-finds.html
    I looked at their voting stats this morning...shocking....the number of voting Republicans was FAR outnumbered by Democrats...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Femme* View Post
    we all want to leave.. but it's difficult to get some of the family to go.
    I told D we need to be gone by 2022.. they've got a wacky (seriously wacky) water rationing thing starting then.


    I'm afraid we'll still be here...


    *sigh
    Maybe if y'all leave they will follow?

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