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Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
« on: March 25, 2019, 02:59:10 pm »

Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
New poll reveals striking, widespread dissatisfaction
 

By Louis Hansen
PUBLISHED: March 24, 2019 at 6:30 am | UPDATED: March 25, 2019 at 7:25 am

Despite a booming economy, pleasant climate and natural treasures, nearly two-thirds of Bay Area residents say the quality of life here has gotten worse in the last five years, according to a new poll.

They cite a litany of reasons: high housing prices, traffic jams, the cost of living and homelessness. It’s so bad that about 44 percent say they are likely to move out of the Bay Area in the next few years, with 6 percent saying they have definite plans to leave this year.

The poll, conducted for this news organization and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, reflects the paradox of Bay Area life — how does a thriving job center with world-class universities and culture stir such dissatisfaction and misery in its people?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/24/is-bay-area-pushing-people-to-the-breaking-point/
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Re: Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2019, 03:38:48 pm »
You could sell some crappy apartment in SF for a million gazillion dollars, then move to Texas and buy a 40 acer ranch.
People living in that cesspool city are insane. I wouldn't last a year there.
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Re: Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2019, 03:43:00 pm »
Quote from: 240B on March 25, 2019, 03:38:48 pm
You could sell some crappy apartment in SF for a million gazillion dollars, then move to Texas and buy a 40 acer ranch.
People living in that cesspool city are insane. I wouldn't last a year there.
But do you want them moving to Texas and buying 40 acre ranches?

 **nononono*

Look what happened to Colorado. Denver used to be a cowboy town....now it's a socialist dumpster fire.
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Re: Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2019, 03:46:49 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on March 25, 2019, 02:59:10 pm
Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
New poll reveals striking, widespread dissatisfaction
 

By Louis Hansen
PUBLISHED: March 24, 2019 at 6:30 am | UPDATED: March 25, 2019 at 7:25 am

Despite a booming economy, pleasant climate and natural treasures, nearly two-thirds of Bay Area residents say the quality of life here has gotten worse in the last five years, according to a new poll.

They cite a litany of reasons: high housing prices, traffic jams, the cost of living and homelessness. It’s so bad that about 44 percent say they are likely to move out of the Bay Area in the next few years, with 6 percent saying they have definite plans to leave this year.

The poll, conducted for this news organization and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, reflects the paradox of Bay Area life — how does a thriving job center with world-class universities and culture stir such dissatisfaction and misery in its people?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/24/is-bay-area-pushing-people-to-the-breaking-point/

I realize no one will admit it, least of all this crappy newspaper, but a big reason people think this place sucks is it has pretty much broken into ethnic enclaves - chinese on the west side, iranians & the wealthy in the south & northwest, indians in the northeast, hispanics and vietnamese on the east side. And the dwindling white middle class in the middle.

There is nothing but crass materialism holding this society together, there's no dominant culture, and I believe most people find that unnerving.
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Re: Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2019, 04:00:23 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on March 25, 2019, 03:46:49 pm
I realize no one will admit it, least of all this crappy newspaper, but a big reason people think this place sucks is it has pretty much broken into ethnic enclaves - chinese on the west side, iranians & the wealthy in the south & northwest, indians in the northeast, hispanics and vietnamese on the east side. And the dwindling white middle class in the middle.

There is nothing but crass materialism holding this society together, there's no dominant culture, and I believe most people find that unnerving.

Actually, crass materialism appears to be the dominant culture.

Sure it's unnerving, as cultures go, it is highly predatory in nature, fueled by envy and gluttony, and devoid of principles other than "Winning!". Money is just the way to keep score.

What happened to all that Hippie love fest stuff, anyway?
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Re: Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2019, 04:20:21 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 25, 2019, 04:00:23 pm

What happened to all that Hippie love fest stuff, anyway?

Oh those guys are still here. You can find em in creek beds & among highway cloverleaf landscaping all over the valley.
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Re: Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2019, 04:37:27 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on March 25, 2019, 04:20:21 pm
Oh those guys are still here. You can find em in creek beds & among highway cloverleaf landscaping all over the valley.
Maybe they could sell Hippie Sh*t bus tours as an attraction for the coprophillic. :shrug:
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Re: Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2019, 04:56:49 pm »
Maybe the river of shit that is Castro Street is driving people away?  Just thinking out loud here....
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Re: Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2019, 10:47:30 pm »
Well...that's exactly where I would want to live...sky high rents and crap on the streets.
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Re: Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2019, 11:59:53 pm »
San Francisco has the highest property crime numbers per 100,000 people in the entire country. Coming in second, Seattle. Both cities in the news lately about their homeless problems.
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