Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave
I lived in the Bay Area for five years, and I&#x27;m so glad I got out.  On paper, the area should operate very similarly to New York City: good public transit, relatively active building, and a variety of neighborhoods and places to live that are relatively safe.<p>In reality, it&#x27;s effectively impossible to get around in the bay area deprived of housing with no new building, no solution to public transit (good luck getting the peninsula towns to allow for BART to expand there), and from what I&#x27;ve read the property crime rates are higher than NYC in the 90s.<p>Of course, New York has its own problems, and the Subway is rapidly degrading.  With that, local politics in the Bay Area are out of control, and it seems there&#x27;s no real easy solution to the political  clusterfuck of the various towns.  Individuals can only really vote with their feet: move out.  There are plenty of other attractive towns for tech.