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As someone who was raised in the Bay Area and had 3 decades of tech career in SV, and left forever in 2016, I'm still surprised at how thick those remaining are

As someone who was raised in the Bay Area and had 3 decades of tech career in SV, and left forever in 2016, I'm still surprised at how thick those remaining are to not see the reality. I assume they don't get out much so they've never seen the contrast with reality to see how bad it is! 56% is merely those who have short term plans to leave. With up to 77% not liking things, they are on the edge of deciding to leave. It only takes a nudge! It's what pushed me and I still have family and >30 years of inertia keeping me there - I reached that point and have never looked back. I was in the Bay Area a few weeks ago and I am SO GLAD I don't live there anymore! What a shit hole it is! It's far worse than 2016.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> 56% is merely those who have short term plans to leave No, plans to leave are a much stronger claim that what the poll asks (the article suggests that it is the weakest of the questions polls typically ask of this issue, “considering leaving in the next five years”, but the poll [0] actually asked the second weakest form, “likely to leave in the next five years”, and 56% is the sum of “somewhat agree” and “strongly agree”.) > With up to 77% not liking things, they are on the edge of deciding to leave None of the reported numbers in the article are of “not liking things”, and the figure that is closest “not liking things” that is reported (“worse than five years ago”) is 71%, not 77%. 77% is what the article says is the percentage of those who agreed (at least somewhat) with the likely to move question that cited housing costs as a major reason (major reasons were not exclusive.) The people “on the edge” are the 25% who only ”somewhat agree” that they are likely leave, already counted as part of the 56%. [0] https://jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/sv-poll-2021-report.pdf https://jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/sv-poll-2021-rep...

dragonwriter 5y ago

> 56% is merely those who have short term plans to leave No, plans to leave are a much stronger claim that what the poll asks (the article suggests that it is the weakest of the questions polls typically ask of this issue, “considering leaving in the next five years”, but the poll [0] actually asked the second weakest form, “likely to leave in the next five years”, and 56% is the sum of “somewhat agree” and “strongly agree”.) > With up to 77% not liking things, they are on the edge of deciding to leave None of the reported numbers in the article are of “not liking things”, and the figure that is closest “not liking things” that is reported (“worse than five years ago”) is 71%, not 77%. 77% is what the article says is the percentage of those who agreed (at least somewhat) with the likely to move question that cited housing costs as a major reason (major reasons were not exclusive.) The people “on the edge” are the 25% who only ”somewhat agree” that they are likely leave, already counted as part of the 56%. [0] https://jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/sv-poll-2021-report.pdf https://jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/sv-poll-2021-rep...