Former residents report that they felt the quality and cost of life was better outside the Bay Area, where homelessness is occurring and housing prices are soaring.
“This is a tough place to live, the most expensive metropolitan area in the country in terms of consumer prices and home purchases. A recent poll of Bay Area residents found that nearly half of Bay Area residents plan to said he was considering leaving,” Eastbay said. times reported.
One family who left the Bay Area to live in Idaho said homelessness is a problem.
“The homeless situation in downtown Martinez was getting out of hand,” Ken Freese told the Times.
(According to the report, nearly half of Bay Area residents were considering leaving the city due to rising prices and the cost of living.)
“The beautiful marina park was littered with needles. People were not willing to take their families there,” he added.
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In 2005, Freese and his wife purchased several acres of land in Placerville, California, with the intention of retiring.
“But by the time they neared retirement, the state had changed too much for them,” the Times reported.
According to the Times, “They decided to change the foothills of the Sierra Nevada to the foothills of Idaho and move to the rapidly growing Boise suburb of Meridian. I visited there for the first time in January and was shocked by the good condition of the roads and the low housing prices.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has been cracking down on homelessness, cleaning up trash and threatening to strip local governments of funding if they don't take action on the issue. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
“In the short time we've been here, what was just an open field when we first moved here has now become apartment complexes and buildings,” Freese told the East Bay Times. he said. “I would like to see them take the reins a little bit and let the infrastructure take a breather.”
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Another Bay Area couple was feeling the housing crunch and felt prices in other areas were “too good to pass up.”
They found a house they liked in Phoenix and had “a lower mortgage payment than a one-bedroom in San Bruno.”
As the Times reported, it “equipped with a pool, palm trees and views of the mountains. “Unless you're Elon Musk, you don't get all that in California anymore.” [Jared] Troutman joked. ”
A family from Oakland moved to the South because the area felt like a “Third World country.”
“I didn't want to wait until everything was worse than it was before,” Mary Ezell-Wallas said.
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“Life in Oakland was stressful day and night,” she said.
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She further explained, “It's much better here.”
Ezell Wallace, who has lived in Auckland for nearly 40 years, ran a hair salon in the 1990s. She said Oakland had great downtown shopping at the time.
“Anything I wanted, I could get right away,” Ezell-Wallace said.
She added: “I thought Auckland was one of the greatest places on earth.”
