https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/t4d4w3/the_bay_area_sucks_and_i_want_to_leave/
The Bay Area Sucks and I Want to Leave. I've lived in the Bay Area for 20 years and here are the things that suck about it: Rude people: It seems like Bay Area people always have a chip on their shoulder. It's common to see strangers picking fights with other strangers. There is so much road rage and drivers have no consideration for others, by

https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/rx6257/do_you_guys_even_like_the_bay_area_rant/
Yes, there is a violent crime each and every day in the Bay Area. 9,710,000 people live here, of course there's always going to be a new crime to talk about. It would be fucking astonishing if ten million people all got along for an entire day. 1.6K votes, 777 comments. I'm from the Bay, born and raised.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/4tg9v1/living_in_the_bay_area_is_overrated/
Living in the Bay Area is overrated. A lot of people rave about the culture and diversity as well as the attractions. What many fail to realize is that many of those attractions are only in San Francisco. The rest of the Bay Area is suburban and way too expensive for most. Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 18.

https://www.hoover.org/research/why-san-francisco-nearly-most-crime-ridden-city-us
San Franciscans face about a 1-in-16 chance each year of being a victim of property or violent crime, which makes the city more dangerous than 98 percent of US cities, both small and large. To put this in perspective, Compton, California, the infamous home of drug gang turf wars, and which today remains more dangerous than 90 percent of all US cities, is almost twice as safe as San Francisco.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-bay-area-is-being-ruined-by-tech-companies-2018-6?op=1
Nov 14, 2018, 12:03 PM PST. Business Insider. Tech companies have taken over the Bay Area. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. The Bay Area is saturated with tech companies like Twitter and DropBox, but

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/san-francisco-crime-rate-what-matters/index.html
It's a storyline that CNN reporter Kyung Lah experienced back in March when she and a crew went to San Francisco to report on how crime has scrambled the city's politics. Last November, voters

https://sfist.com/2019/03/26/poll-insists-everyone-hates-the-bay-area-and-wants-to-leave/
Two-thirds of the Bay Area says their quality of life has gotten worse during the last five years of the venture capital tech boom, according to a new poll of 1,600 registered voters.

https://www.hoover.org/research/san-francisco-falls-abyss
No major American city has failed at the same level as Detroit, whose population dropped from 1.85 million people in 1950 to about 630,000 today. Move over Detroit, here comes San Francisco, which lost 6.3 percent of its population between 2019 and 2021, a rate of decline larger than any two year-period in Detroit's history and unprecedented among any major US city.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/
The San Francisco Bay Area is 52 percent white, 6.7 percent Black, and 23.3 percent Asian. And many Asian San Franciscans were horrified by the tweets. And many Asian San Franciscans were

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-10/i-took-san-francisco-bay-area-transit-and-saw-why-it-s-in-trouble
What drove commuting by transit down was mainly a huge increase in working from home, with the percentage of workers doing so jumping to about 35% last year in both the San Francisco and San Jose

https://theweek.com/in-depth/1025947/san-francisco-boom-bust-decline
San Francisco is a city of two realities. The Bay Area is arguably the tech capital of the world, and the Silicon Valley region has "both the largest tech talent pool and the highest number of

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/sf-bay-area-dining-problem-opinion
In 2023, the Bay Area received its fewest James Beard nominations ever. According to restaurant editor Elazar Sontag, it wasn't a snub: The region just isn't conducive to innovation right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/business/economy/california-economy-housing-homeless.html
People have short memories, of course, and as soon as there is another recession, the focus of Californians and their leaders is bound to turn from the strains of growth to creating jobs. From

https://leaveyourdailyhell.com/2023/09/14/is-san-francisco-really-that-bad/
San Francisco has the largest homeless population per-capita in the US. Worse, many of these people are aggressive and sometimes violent drug addicts, rather than individuals who have simply fallen on hard times. The good news is that most are concentrated in particular areas of San Francisco, such as the notorious Tenderloin district.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/new-report-shows-california-and-the-bay-area-struggling-with-air-pollution/
By Amanda Hari. Updated on: April 24, 2024 / 7:56 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco. A newly released report by the American Lung Association reveals that the state of California -- and the Bay Area

https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-bay-area-misconceptions-silicon-valley-what-its-like-2019-9?op=1
Associated Press. Bay Area tech companies have made a huge impact on 21st-century living across the globe, but their day-to-day impact is hardly felt by people living around them. Tech giants like

https://www.thedrive.com/news/public-ev-charging-still-sucks-but-ford-is-working-to-fix-it
It looked at all 181 non-Tesla DC fast-charging sites in the San Francisco Bay Area, totaling 657 connectors. Overall, just 72.5 percent of those connectors worked, with this defined as being able

https://abc7news.com/bay-area-air-quality-monday-california-worst-in-the-world-when-will-improve-oregon/6422415/
California is dealing with some of the worst air quality in the world as the Bay Area continues its record-breaking Spare the Air streak with smoke from wildfires blowing over the region. Watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMPIcYRb30o
The Bay Area of California is deteriorating in quality of life and it's shockingly apparent.Get Valentine's Day Specials during 8-15th Feb 2022! Up to $140 O

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/bay-area-air-quality-can-plummet-from-an-inversion-layer-during-the-winter/ar-BB1iQRud
Californians are used to thinking about bad air coming in the summer, when ozone peaks and wildfires send particulate-heavy air to the Bay Area. But some of the Bay's worst air quality days

https://oaklandside.org/2024/06/18/why-are-my-allergies-so-bad-this-year/
Credit: Florence Middleton. As the weather has warmed up, many Bay Area residents have noticed an uptick in their allergy symptoms-the itchy eyes, the stuffy nose, the headache. The reason may have little to do with your outdoor activities and more to do with changes to the climate. Emerging research suggests that intensifying climate change

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/california-drought.html
No matter how you slice it, the drought in California is extremely, exceptionally bad. The past 12 months were the driest in a century. Lake Mead, one of our most crucial water sources, has

https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/khz6bo/why_do_so_many_public_schools_suck_in_the_bay_area/
Fremont, Danville, San Ramon are in the East Bay. Most in top 20-30% ratings. It's essentially a perfect storm of suck. Start with Prop 13 squeezing schools for funding, especially in more established areas where most residents are boomers paying 1/10 the taxes of new arrivals.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/zyn-shortage-busting-users-buzz-company-halts-online-sales-rcna158183
A shortage of Zyn, a smokeless nicotine pouch that users tuck into their lips to get a buzz, has fueled a wave of social media outcry in recent weeks, amplified by a legal challenge that forced

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/17/heres-why-car-payments-are-so-high-right-now.html
As of May, customers were paying, on average, $760 a month for an auto loan, according to Moody's Analytics. While that is a drop from a high of $795 in December 2022, it is still a roughly 40%

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/06/24/teens-lean-on-ai-for-mental-health-support/
AI can provide a safe space for teens to be vulnerable at a point when the adults in their lives may not be supportive of mental health care. "It was just a big thing for my parents to accept

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/flooding-minnesota-updates-june-2024/
Waterville, Minnesota residents prepare for even more flooding 01:47. Sens. Klobuchar and Tina Smith and Rep. Angie Craig toured the town on Sunday. So far, there have only been voluntary

https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/restaurants/article289392924.html
It's not your imagination. For Miami, it's a bad mango season. This is not to say there are no mangoes to be found. Your trees might bear some fruit, depending on where you live. Some

https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/ezyu35/shut_up_already_we_know_the_bay_area_is_terrible/
Honestly the bay is just like any other area, it ebbs and flows. And however many issues are cropping up, they're good issues to have. We can fix public transportation, housing and vagrancy issues. Its alot better than it was in the 90's when the shipyards closed and crime was alot worse.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tropical-storm-texas-extreme-heat-wave-northeast-rcna157893
High winds and as much as 10 to 15 inches of rain are expected in Corpus Christi. Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 51 Texas counties "to ensure Texans and at-risk regions have