Alum and Murph can pshaw me all they want, but middle class families don’t want shitty progressive policies. And about the only people that are going to be left in the cities proper are going to be yuppies, criminals, and those too poor to escape.
It’s not just a troubling trend any longer—it’s an exodus as the article states. Hell, a hippy dippy girl I grew up with who couldn’t wait run away to Chicago after school even mentioned the other day that all the BS has her debating on whether or not to cross the Rubicon. She doesn’t even have a family.
Cool story bro.
We just bought a condo in downtown Mountain View. Mountain View and the Peninsula writ large have a more "urban" feel than say, Naperville or Schaumburg, there are only 2 freeways, neither of which dissect communities, and big box stores are not super prevalent, DTMV more resembles a place like Lincoln Square in Chicago.
That condo was 2 million bucks. It's not even in SF.
If people leave SF (Pop 800k) to move to Taylorville (pop 12,000) - it's because SF (median home price 1.4 Million) is more expensive than Taylorville (median home price 130k). That is both progressive AND *conservative* policies. Restricted zoning put in place to preserve the home values of rich people. Nancy Pelosi - not a "progressive" doesn't want SF to grow to a million people if it means that there will be more high rises blocking her view and it gets harder to park her limousine.
Meanwhile - the "progressives" in SF don't want the high rises either. They want the city to be the same size, yet somehow have real estate prices stay the same. So they put in rent control, which adds to the problems caused by restricted zoning because new development doesn't pencil out. They say that rent control helps make things affordable for people with less money - but that's only true for the people with less money who are already there. When I moved to SF in 1998, the city had a much larger mix of people my age because people in their 20's could move to SF and find a place to live. Now those people are still there in their rent controlled place, but new 20 somethings can't move in because the housing stock is frozen in amber. And while the progressives complain that the only young people in town are tech-bros - they created those conditions. To make matters worse, you get situations where people who want to have kids or a divorce, can't do so because they can't afford to give up their rent control.
Now this has caused wage problems that a goddamn pint of beer is $11. I was just telling my wife that in 2003 when pints broke the $5 barrier I thought that was insane. $11? Our new condo is 1 block from a beer garden, and I'm probably going to drink on our porch. Can't do it.
There were plenty of drugged out homeless people, property crime, even some violent crime back then. People were still coming in droves. Because the city kicks ass. But only if you can afford it. Random homeless people are mostly harmless - and they exist everywhere. We stopped in Kingdom City Missouri on the way to the Ozarks, and I went to throw some trash out in the dumpster at the McDonalds - there was a homeless guy sleeping behind the dumpster. Maybe Missouri has less of a homeless problem because that guy probably dies from heat exposure. My in-laws live in bumfuck illinois. Not so many homeless people there. Because the place has emptied out since there are no jobs and no young people, so housing is cheap and blighted. rent cheap or just squat.
People are stupid.
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