I read a surprising article in the UT today (online) about the rate at which people are moving out vs moving in to San Diego.
Citing data from the California Department of Finance, Schuerman said only 900 people moved to San Diego County over the past two years, while more than 28,500 residents moved out.
It would seem that the number one business difficulty for 90% of businesses and 100% of employees is the cost of housing in San Diego.
So, has the loss of roughly 2.3% of San Diego’s population had any noticeable impacts for any of you?
I don’t doubt there is a greater number of people leaving San Diego than arriving, however those numbers seem off.
“…13,000, or roughly 1 percent of the regional work force”
Using the article number, the exodus would be 2% of the workforce, not the population. Once you strip out kids, the retired, the disabled and similar, maybe only 65% of the residents of the county actually work. Illegals and some eBay sellers aren’t being counted as well.
To answer your question, San Diego feels about the same as it did 6 years ago with maybe the exception of Mission Valley on the weekend, which is a zoo.
I am leaving the San Diego area, next spring.. my children are getting short shafted in schools, lessons are presented in a foreign language.. local businesses conduct a lot of business in a foreign language.. and I for one am tired of pressing 1 for English…good luck San Diego..
Where are you going Maxine?
Actually, I was using the number “28,500″ which they said was the number who left over the last two years. And a search for “San Diego Population” on google said the population is 1.2million (perhaps that’s off).
MAS,
For some reason i got your comment by email, but am unable to find it on this page, or in moderation, or in spam karma. Very weird.
I agree with you, I was mostly motivated to post this due to my difficulty believing that that high of a percentage of people are seriously leaving.
I’ll dig around and see what I can find… I’m thinking that whatever documentation they’re basing this one has some signficant bias.
I messed up a Href link which screwed up the page, so I went to the ADMIN and deleted the comment. Then I got distracted and didn’t repost.
Of course people left San Diego! I can speculate that a majority of the people leaving were the 65+ crowd that made a killing selling their houses and moved to Arizona or Nevada…just prior to the market softening.
I do believe however that many younger are making attempts to “try out” San Diego and then only wind up leaving because they are either done with partying in PB or are young professionals that are having a diffcult time paying for rent with a modest median payscale out here.
The economics don’t make sense for a town that STILL relies on the military, tourism, construction and Qualcomm to pay the bills. That’s a pretty weak list to pull from to justify a balanced economy.
Hi Maxine,
Sometimes I think about leaving San Diego so I can buy a HOUSE. So, I can understand the exodus.
However, your kids having the rare chance to grow up next to another country and get a bilingual education in America is a good thing for their education.