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

By Greg Norman
8 hours ago

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.

Those who responded to the poll say homelessness, shown here in San Francisco, is one of the main problems facing the Bay Area today, although they did not cite it as a major reason for them wanting to move out (KTVU)

Forty-five percent of those who say they are planning to leave cited cost of living as the driving factor, while 27 percent said housing and rent costs are becoming too much to bear.

Sixteen percent of that group said they plan to move somewhere else in California, while Texas, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona topped the most sought-after states outside of California for relocation.

“On the downside of it is all the people who need to be here to provide all the services are being priced out,” Wunderman said to KTVU. “We’re seeing teachers, government workers, firefighters, police officers actually not able to live in the communities.”

Ron and Elizabeth Haines, who have lived in the city of Pleasanton, say they are moving to Idaho this summer and are among the residents who believe living in the Bay Area is getting too expensive.

“We are excited,” Elizabeth Haines told the station. “I have tons of friends and family here. It’s going to be hard, but I have a feeling we’re going to have lots of visitors.”

Over the course of a week, commuter Shannon Gafford took videos of the surprising scene showing people openly taking hard drugs inside a San Francisco BART station as other commuters pass by.

Other residents who spoke to local media lamented home prices.

"You kill yourself trying to pay for the housing and then you leave because it's just ridiculous, right? So I mean, it sounds about right," Ben Imadal of San Francisco told KGO-TV.

Jack Hickox, also of San Francisco, said “almost all of my daughter's friends and their parents have left.

"We're making it work for now. Cross my fingers, but it's hard," he told the station.

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

WOW. 50%. That's a lot. Poor California, they've let illegal immigration ruin their Paradise State with overpopulation, growing poverty class, lack of jobs that pay enough for American Workers to live there. It's so sad. It really is. Hopefully Californians will finally wake up in huge mass and end this problem in their state. I sure hope so. There's some we can do, some the feds can do, but largely this problem is one that Californians will have to stop themselves, because it's beyond what the rest of US can fix for them. Too many California DemoQuacks in public office and on the take with the cartels for US to do much about. Tragic situation.

Yeah, but they move to other states and take their "baggage" and ideas with them. Very aggressive drivers and road rage, they are wound up, rude and bring their ideals with them. They ruined Lake Tahoe, they are taking over Vegas and Arizona. Oregon and Texas doesn't want them either, many States do not. Then they will drive up housing costs where they go.

Stay home, vote out the DemoRats, take your State back and drive out the illegal aliens.

Turn California RED...not flee.

Hard to believe the former Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsome, is the top contender for Governor of California.

Irvine, Los Angeles high on U.S. cities’ population growth list


The city of Irvine and the Irvine Co. celebrated the 30th anniversary of the passing of the open space ballot initiative on April 14, 2018, at Quail Hill Traihead. (City of Irvine)

By JONATHAN LANSNER | jlansner@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: May 24, 2018 at 12:01 am | UPDATED: May 25, 2018 at 2:46 pm


Giant Los Angeles and relatively small Irvine made the list of the 15 U.S. cities adding the most residents in the year ended July 1.

Population growth in the two Southern California cities was highlighted in a Census Bureau report released Thursday, May 24.

At the city level for the 12 months studied, Los Angeles added 18,643 people — the nation’s No. 5 gain in population count and just 241 people shy of 4 million.

That’s a modest growth of 0.47 percent. L.A., by the way, was the nation’s No. 2 city for overall population behind New York City.

Irvine added 11,068 people in the year — the No. 14 gain in population count — to 277,453. That’s a 4.15 percent growth. The city is undergoing a homebuilding surge that is luring new residents.

Texas also was high on these city growth charts. San Antonio added the most residents in the nation, up 24,208 residents to 1,511,946 That’s a 1.63 percent growth. The Dallas suburb of Frisco was the fastest growing city in the year by percentage gain — up 8.2 percent to 177,286. And Fort Worth become the 15th most-populous city: its population of 874,168 surpassed Indianapolis at 863,002.

Statewide, the census tallied 39.54 million residents — tops in the U.S. That’s up 240,177 in a year and the No. 3 increase nationally — or 0.61 percent growth — 21 fastest out of 50 states. And the U.S. population grew by 2.3 million to 326 million, 0.7 percent growth.

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/2...-growth-lists/

DID YOU SEE?

California ranked as nation’s 5th fastest-growing economy

Southern California pay hits record highs as workers get more hours

California’s record low unemployment is far from perfect

Southern California homeownership on the rise

Word has leaked out that all of the people leaving the Bay Area will be moving to North Carolina and will rename it East California.

People from the Bay Area took over Lake Tahoe and wrecked it. Road rage, aggressive attitudes, cut in front of you in line at the store, drive the cost of housing up...they bring their baggage with them! Obnoxious shallow people.

They also went in and bought multiple properties in Vegas to rent them out...then the housing crash caused hundreds of foreclosures. Several homes owned by ONE buyer caused a massive crash there because they foreclosed on them all. They will do it where they move to.

These States are going to regret having these people move into them and then they will drive up the costs of housing.

STAY HOME AND FIX YOUR OWN STATE...YOU WRECKED IT...YOU LIVE IN IT AND CHANGE IT.

3,000 new homes planned for Las Vegas

They are going to build all the way up to Mt. Charleston

Where is ALL the water going to come from for all this growth?

That is my big concern. Lake Mead will never recover to it's high levels.

Are they piping it in from somewhere?

I like that they are building more 55+ homes...we need more communities throughout the US for retirees to downsize out of the rat race.

Originally Posted by Beezer

. . . Where is ALL the water going to come from for all this growth?

That is my big concern. Lake Mead will never recover to it's high levels.

Are they piping it in from somewhere? . . .

For many years all of the "waste water" from casinos and homes has been filtered and piped back to Lake Mead to be used over and over.