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One-third of Bay Area residents hope to leave soon, poll finds
San Jose Mercury News ^ | May 1, 2016 at 7:10 am | By GEORGE AVALOS

Posted on 04/27/2017 10:20:52 AM PDT by Swordmaker

More than one-third of Bay Area residents say they are ready to leave in the next few years, citing high housing costs and traffic as the region’s biggest problems, according to a poll released Monday.

Of the 1,000 people polled by the Bay Area Council, 34 percent said they are considering leaving. Those who have lived here five years or less are the most likely to want to leave.

“This is our canary in a coal mine,” said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council. “Residents are screaming for solutions.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: mobility; realestatevalues; sfbayarea
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I am posting this at the behest of a fellow Freeper who doesn't feel comfortable with his posting skills but is concerned with what will happen to property values. The comment he wished to make and get comments from our fellow Freepers on is as follows:

"The response: I read a comment on YouTube yesterday about this. The commentator was from the Bay Area and seemed to be at least somewhat neutral. The concern he had was this, look at the inflated property values in the Bay Area. People have invested heavily in homes that have become terribly inflated over the last several decades. Fairly ordinary houses priced in the hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. Imagine what would happen to property values if one third of the folks in this area have to go back to Mexico or wherever. This is what is generating the fear these libtards are reacting to.

Myself, I don’t live there and these folks cheered while 0bama screwed the rest of the country in their favor so I say it is their turn but this is an aspect of the current events that I had not considered.

I think it is a legitimate concern.

This article is from a year ago this coming Monday and precedes Trump's election. I wonder what a repeat poll would find now.

1 posted on 04/27/2017 10:20:52 AM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
Stay out of Michigan, it is cold, nah ya wouldn't like it....;-)
2 posted on 04/27/2017 10:22:10 AM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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To: Swordmaker
🚧. Just don't come here.
3 posted on 04/27/2017 10:22:32 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Swordmaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQEIYjS1ePY


4 posted on 04/27/2017 10:23:07 AM PDT by Paul46360 (What??ME worry?)
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Stay out of Michigan, it is cold, nah ya wouldn't like it....;-)

I went to college there. . . on Mackinac Island, no less. I liked it.

5 posted on 04/27/2017 10:24:44 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker
More than one-third of Bay Area residents say they are ready to leave in the next few years, citing high housing costs and traffic as the region’s biggest problems. “Residents are screaming for solutions.”

The "solutions" will be Rent Control and government-funded electric choo-choo trains.


6 posted on 04/27/2017 10:25:21 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Swordmaker

“Do You Know the Way OUT of San Jose?”


7 posted on 04/27/2017 10:25:26 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Swordmaker

There’s a college on Mackinac Island?


8 posted on 04/27/2017 10:25:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Swordmaker

This is bad news for the rest of us! Right now all those libtards are confined to one area; this suggests they’ll migrate elsewhere and try to change their new locations to be the hellhole they came from.


9 posted on 04/27/2017 10:27:39 AM PDT by speedracerx (The fate of our great nation lies in the hands of conservatives!)
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Stay out of Michigan, it is cold, nah ya wouldn't like it....;-)

Yep, that guy is shoveling snow off his garage roof.

10 posted on 04/27/2017 10:28:17 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: taildragger

And keep out of Arizona-we have no A/C days and the giant scorpions will eat your small pet or child


11 posted on 04/27/2017 10:29:03 AM PDT by kaktuskid (And)
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Please Dear God make them stay. Don’t let them infect the rest of the country with the disease that they’ve inflicted on the Bay Area.


12 posted on 04/27/2017 10:29:57 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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This is why the Left self-identifies as “progressive” -— just like the political and social cancer they are.


13 posted on 04/27/2017 10:30:46 AM PDT by glennaro
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This is our canary in a coal mine...?

How so...? It’s all according to the liberal agenda!!!


14 posted on 04/27/2017 10:31:14 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Swordmaker

My dad bought a new four bedroom, two and a half bath house in East San Jose, for $41,000 in 1972.

I don’t know the precise assessed value today, but I’m pretty sure it’s north of $1.5 million.


15 posted on 04/27/2017 10:31:44 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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Don’t come to Colorado. We have ticks, snow, predator bears and mountain lions.


16 posted on 04/27/2017 10:32:35 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives.have diseased minds.)
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Bad traffic and high housing costs are going to be the least of their problems when the tribes and the ferals go full tilt.


17 posted on 04/27/2017 10:33:40 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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Stinks of Urine ?


18 posted on 04/27/2017 10:34:41 AM PDT by butlerweave
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—don’t go to Nevada—unfriendly atmosphere, miserable weather, lots of guns in the rural areas, mountain lions, snakes, lizards, etc.,-—anyhow , we already have our quota of SF liberal types-—


19 posted on 04/27/2017 10:35:09 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Swordmaker

More than one-third of Bay Area residents say they are ready to leave in the next few years, citing high housing costs and traffic as the region’s biggest problems, according to a poll released Monday.

Doesn’t look like leaving for Mexico has 1 thing to do with it and is not even mentioned. Jeez


20 posted on 04/27/2017 10:35:33 AM PDT by sheana
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