Residents increasingly unhappy with Bay Area life, new poll finds

Re:Residents increasingly unhappy with Bay Area life, new po... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:00AM (#21749732)

California has been exporting "poor" people for years. The Good Life that well paid folks in the state expect basically requires a servant class that can't actually afford to live there.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article136478098.html

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Re:Residents increasingly unhappy with Bay Area life, new po... by bbarn on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:08AM (#21749771)

Ding. Ding. Ding. California has always relied on a steady rotation of people from poorer outlying areas coming, getting broken by the system, then leaving back to the more rural areas that have almost zero representation in the state.

Thus, the myth of the valley persists.

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Re:Residents increasingly unhappy with Bay Area life, new po... by shsyejehxtd on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:08AM (#21749767)

The real plot twist when California finally manages to manifest its rail expansions will be that it was all just a plan to enable ultra long distance commutes from Oregon.

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Re:Residents increasingly unhappy with Bay Area life, new po... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:10AM (#21749781)

Last I read, planned high speed rail was from SF to LA through Fresno. Fresno is relatively affordable for the state.

For your plot to come to life they need to be creating high speed rail north from SF, not south. But if they do, I wouldn't actually be surprised by that as an outcome.

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