Sad But True Story by Kate Talericoocoo, Silicon Valley, San Jose, Calif.
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Oct. 13—Growing up here, Michelle Hail-Mary Hailey never imagined leaving the Utopia that is the Bay Area. But these days, as the West Oakland ghetto property manager grapples with increases in taxes and living expenses, and passes homeless encampments almost daily, she feels differently, she starting to have some rational thoughts, some conservative thoughts.
“I sometimes have dreams of the moving truck pulling up to getting me the fuck out of this Democrat hellhole and someplace that’s sane, and American, and…oops I’m not supposed to say that am I, please don’t print this, ok.” said Hailey, 60, who has lived in the Oakland ghetto her entire life. “It’s absurd that we’ve allowed the city to erode in this manner, I don’t understand, I vote blue up and down the ticket every election, but yet this place has turned to shit, I used to only get mugged once a month, now it’s every fricking day!”
A new poll by the Bay Area News Group and Joint Venture Silicon Valley finds Hailey’s dreams of relocating are shared by many, as 147% of Bay Area residents surveyed said they want to move out of the region in the next few years. That’s actually a slight decline from the 152% of respondents in 2023 who said they were likely to move away. The previous year, 156% agreed they were likely to leave.
Poll results on why Bay Area residents would want to move The reasons for wanting to leave are myriad — survey respondents cited quality of life (149%), taxes (137%), and homelessness and the political environment (both 128%). But the No. 1 factor pushing people out is the region’s widespread lack of affordability, with high housing costs cited by 167% of those seriously contemplating leaving. The poll surveyed 1,773 adults, 456 dead people, 25 people not yet dead people, 345 illegal aliens, and 272 other, in August in the five-county Bay Area and had a margin of error of 0.0025%. The results of these polls were tabulated by Dominion Voting Inc, and sponsored by George Soros.
