More San Diegans are considering moving away. Here's why 

The cost of living across the Country is already very high but San Diego is just way over the top expensive - some parts of CA are really only for millionaires while everyone else just gets squeezed out of the area.

The government should not allow Hedge funds and non-American investors to buy property. It will never happen, but that is a strong factor why rental and property prices have skyrocketed.

What? You don’t want to pay 3k to live with a hobo in front of your property?

The cost of living has been always high, but it is just not worth it anymore.

Some Parts of San Diego are downright scary. The place is a beautiful diamond covered in sh$t.

So the rent payers are leaving while the homeless from other areas take over San Diego.

In 1985 sandiego was America's finest city. 2023 sandiego is America's most expensive city with homeless everywhere. Sandiego has fallen and can't get up.

Grew up in SD in the 1970's . Everyone was skinny, tan and we had the best music of any generation in my opinion. YOU MISSED IT KIDS! I am leaving California next year . It is a Tragic kingdom now ....the good vibrations are gone.

I mean you can still rent an apartment for $1900, a month. And a big part is that 20 people are living in one house.

San Diego being more expensive than SF, Miami, and New York is absolutely mind blowing.

Lived there for a decade in the 80's and it was expensive then, but Baja was still safe to visit. My roots are in the tropics so I returned home where life is Wonderful and affordable in Paradise--our ocean is blue blue blue, our land is green and not crowded with people. ❤

Honestly this is all pushing out the natives and replacing it with other people. I really do feel like it’s a ploy and greed. But there’s not enough pressure to ever make me move to effing Florida.

I like to plan ahead. I bailed on Diego in 86'.

Power Bills, highest in the Nation. Fuel cost highest in the Nation. Food cost is some of the highest in the Nation. Car Insurance close to the most costly in the Nation (zip code), just for starters.

San Diego is a nightmare for any veteran who didn't have the officer grade salary. Making ends meet in a living hell for the poor, while they celebrate 4th of July, truly to mark the fall of the serviceman at this point.

Stayed at Westin in the gas lamp district.No hot water for 2 days.. homeless everywhere..what a deal for $350 a night..never again

I stayed with my brother in Coronado it’s nice but right over the bridge to downtown is like skid row

Don't worry San Diegans, a Chinese billionaire who has escaped from prison or retired NFL player will gladly buy your overpriced home. Us normal folks are leaving this place. The weather ain't worth your retirement.

You can’t keep claiming San Diego is paradise when homeless people are everywhere dumping trash all over the sidewalks. They’re allowing this city to become a homeless paradise.

I would gladly leave SD if I knew where to go.

San Diego should be the new "If you could make it here, you can make it anywhere" city.

So are you saying that San Diego is more expensive to live than San Francisco or New York??

That’s why I left San Diego. Best decision I’ve ever made

Aghhh... I live up around Seattle and it's worse than San Diego... The homeless r worse, the cost of restaurants r higher with lower quality food, drugs everywhere up here, trash everywhere , spray paint, crime, screwed up small roads with all day long traffic jams, unfriendly people, mental illness everywhere, pore local, city, and state government planning, no parks, nowhere to go, summer is 3 months long, groceries for 2 people r over $200 a week, gas is over $5, none of the grass or trash along any street or highway is cleaned or mowed, they hide and rename taxes to make it seem like something else, the registration sticker on my license plate cost $600 every year for 1 car for a train construction tax that won't be complete for another 12 years and no one will use because it's so inefficient.... San Diego is paradise compared to this toxic POS know as the Pacific Northwest.... I make well over 6 figures and have a nice house with a view and I hate it up here... The second the housing market gets better, I'm out of here and moving to the San Diego area where I can enjoy my life before I die!!!!

I had to move away with my family during the recession of 2008. I definitely miss it. My other family members are still there. I feel if it weren't for my move away from SD, I wouldn't have the things I have now

Living in SD is free if you're homeless.

Born an raised here its definitely hard but nothing compares to sd in the country , and ive lived in new york, Pittsburgh, Charlotte , and Memphis

Wait a minute, so the high cost is living isn't causing these people to become homeless?

I lived in San Diego for 18 years, until SAIC relocated me to the DC Beltway. Even though that area is considered 'high cost' too, it's a lot more affordable than San Diego. I had a house 500 yards from Chesapeake Bay that was twice as large as the one I'd had in Scripps Ranch, but cost me only a 3rd of what I had sold the San Diego house. Another factor is the 'San Diego Discount" employers expect folks to take a little less for the privilege of living and working in America's Finest City. SAIC gave me a hefty raise when they sent me east. Pay is better, housing a lot more affordable, utilities, groceries, gas....It just hit $2.98 @ gallon here today. My money goes a LOT further

Graduated from UCSD in 2006. I remember you coupd've bought a condo near campus for low $200k. I'm in Vegas now. I do miss the weather but I'm more financially set here.

Yes, it is expensive to live here in San Diego. I would not mind it as much if they actually took care of the roads, enforced the law, cleaned up the parks, had proper policing, did something about the mentally ill homeless population that is ruining our city and, in general, did something to ensure that residents who live here and pay property and other taxes had the quality of living that they are actually paying for. I, for one, lay a lot of blame on the good for nothing Mayor, Todd Gloria.

Well you do reap what you sow. CA has doubled down on idiotic politics and regulations. They have high taxes and high costs. I love CA, it has the best geography in the country. However CA politics are the worst export in the country. They incentive homelessness, theft, low housing inventory, and almost wage an economic war on small business and the middle class. For 40 years it was the greatest state in the country, and now, its not in the top 10. It is really sad to see. I love SD, was born here and live here now

For every bum that's going to leave, there's going to be 5 new individuals that want to move in so it doesn't matter. Cost of living in SD will continue to rise

Ever since 2021 it has got worse in downtown San Diego and the East Village it has always been expensive but the homeless drug addicts,violent mentally ill and teens,trash everywhere more rats than ever before infectious diseases,i have lived here 17 years and going to leave here in the coming year......

They are constructing several apartments building in the University Heights/North Park/Hillcrest area. That's hundreds of new rental units renting from $3K to $5K for a very small 1/2 bedroom and no parking. The big Winslow complex on Park & El Cajon is huge. I drive by it everyday and see that the units are not being rented out, and they have been trying for months. The apartments are empty. Around the corner on El Cajon, many large multi-unit buildings have been constructed or are being constructed. Most with limited parking available. Down the street on Park Blvd, another building with maybe 50 units under construction. Who do they think are going to rent all these units? I think most people that can afford the high rent most definitely own a car, and probably a nice one, and they won't be on-site parking available for the majority of the building tenants? I see a huge crash coming to the rental market is SD.

Sandiego voted for more taxes, so now every mile you drive will be taxe on top of the gas tax that is supposed to go to road maintenance

I am glad I moved out from California three years ago way to expensive.

Definitely loved living in SD while it lasted. One day again.....

A student 👩‍🎓 who came here for school leaving after graduation doesn’t count towards San-Diegans leaving. Students are expected to return home or elsewhere.

Left Escondido and CA after living there my whole life. The homelessness was too much for me. I didn’t want to pay through the nose to have a nice house with so much homelessness around me.

Born & raised there-my Father's family goes back to the 1850's-Julian area. Remember a time when there was space between the little coast cities driving north on then almost new I-5. Graduated high school in '79. The changes really started by the late 80's-it was a decent place up until then. Left in July 1991 for a small town in the upper Midwest & NEVER LOOKED BACK. Ya''ll can have it. Sad but true.

San Diego: My place the Cost of living is so high LA: Me too San Francisco : Hold My beer.

There is no place like San Diego ❤

Isn't National City, Chula Vista, and San Ysidro cheaper? Maybe that can be an option for San Diegans?

new 2 bedroom apt is $4000 homes are $1,000,000 see why

My dad built a home in San Diego 45 years ago and he is putting up all his property’s for sale in January and leaving back to Canada 🍁

The quality of life is in a death spiral and the cost of enduring it is in the stratosphere. We left in 2021, it's the best thing we could have done. We have left the cesspool that is CA and moved back to America.

We loved San Diego and would prefer to live there over Temecula, all things being equal. But they aren’t, and we chose to settle up here. Housing costs was the only factor in our decision, but it was based on what we wanted. In San Diego we rented and missed our chance to buy. By the time we decided we wanted to stay prices had risen well above affordibility for us. That is for a house in the neighborhood we wanted and big enough for our family. In Temecula we bought a much nicer home, 40 years newer, about 800 more square feet, with a 3 car vs 2 car garage, much bigger lot, slightly better school district, newer and much nicer community amenities, and MUCH less crime. In our San Diego neighborhood car break-ins were a nightly thing in large numbers, home burglaries less common but not infrequent. Have not heard of any here, some sporadic porch piracy and catilytic converter thefts mentioned on nextdoor app. We lived in our old neighborhood in San Diego for the school district so that was the only deal breaker for us. We would have accepted the older, smaller house with theft concerns but the price for such a home in that neighborhood was TWICE what we paid here.

Unchecked greed has made this possible. This isnt just the result of inflation as a lot of people would suggest. Lot of price gouging. People both domestic and foreign see riches when they see CA. They dont care what damage it does.

Arizona!?! It's horrible here! Please stay in California!

When too many move in for the hi-paying jobs, those renting and not making the big bucks are forced out.

I visited 20 years,ago and it was definitely breathtakingly beautiful but there was something off about the people. Something not right!!

No one cares, no one is coming to help, it is every man for himself, and they want it that way. Drowning, divided, powerless.

A beautiful city doesn't pay the bills 😮

Dont forget about the beaches always being closed because Tijuana sewage contamination

Texas, Florida, Nevada, and Washington doesn't have an income tax, while Arizona has a low income tax rate.

Greed. Stop the greedy landlords, make a law to decrease the rents and rent cannot be raised but every 3 years and no more than 2 percent.

I am a native of San Dagan and was born at the Navy Balboa Hospital I retired in 2013 and left because I could not afford to buy a house there or afford the cost of living there, So I moved to Crossville, TN a small retirement community and it's cheap here, low property tax Car registration fees for any new or used cars are 29.00 a year, and there is no Smog either I bought a three-bedroom house on two acres in a rural area for less than 100.000 and my mortgage is under 500 a month. I don't have to deal with the homeless people like in El Cajon and there's not a lot here either. I do miss San Diego but not all madness there. Here it's nice and slow pace. Plus I see many families are leaving San Diego and moving here. Just wanted to give people a heads up!

The data that should have been included: the percentage of residents of San Diego who wanted to move in previous years. That is, 75% of residents of San Diego want to move. What was it ten years ago? Or 15? If it's also 75% -- or close to it -- this then suggests that as residents move away, because of the high cost of housing, more residents move in. In other words, high housing costs are determined by demand and low supply. Then, the more important statistic is the number of people moving into the county relative to the number of people moving away.

I left Sd for 2years and came right back 😂 nothing is better then Sd weather.

The people of San Diego were horrible before the homeless problem

never would have thought. i thought new york city was the most expensive

Doesn't help when the city and county governments pay extremely low wages as well. It's highway robbery

If you come to Arizona don’t bring the politics that caused California to go to shit with you

The one trend that people do need to reconsider is moving to San Diego on a whim with no career opportunity lined up. I emphasize career opportunity because you can get a job anywhere, but anywhere won't necessarily pay the bills, especially in San Diego which is one of the most expensive cities in the US. You need an actual career that pays sufficiently well and even then that may not be enough as the high rents will drain your income. It's not uncommon to see people come to San Diego and post on social media boards that they just moved in to North Park, Normal Heights, Pacific Beach (expensive areas to live in) say that they want to remain here and are looking for a job. If you made this move, you need to move back from wherever you came from as it easily and likely will be the worst financial decision you made. I get Ohio and much of Illinois isn't exciting, but it at least is affordable and might be worth staying there until you actually havebtour finances figured out.

I have lived in San Diego since 1946. In 1954 you could buy a nice home for $12,000 dollars.

I am NEVER voting demo again

Don't worry, the ones leaving will be replaced

I'm not going anywhere, I'm living in my RV on your street..

Something deeeeeeply wrong

"And still vote blue..." 🙄

It would take a lot for me to move. Sure somewhat cheaper in TX or AZ, but you're living in TX and AZ. Not for me.

No longer America’s Finest City?

GENTRIFICATION

Do it !

$7 for a cantaloupe and $24 for a watermelon at lazy acres ya it’s OUTRAGEOUS

Paradise with a 35% higher cost of living than 47 other states. Paradise with RVs and trailers on the side of the road tents homeless people everywhere people shooting drugs up on the streets this is your idea of paradise

Once they move out, they won't be able to come back. Considering means not moving out..

Calling San Diego paradise is hilarious. No hyper capitalist city is paradise.

I wish I could move but its so expensive too!

I’m not a wealthy person by any means but to me the cost of living would be worth it because of the natural beauty, beaches and weather but when there are homeless people masturbating(literally) on sidewalks it makes it not worth it anymore

I know people who had to leave, they just could not take it anymore, absolutely no chance of owning, two incomes, 2K in babysitters, tears when they left. Two years later after they settle in HAPPY, still miss it, I drive south anytime I can, I love it down there, the weather is so nice. Most of the houses people rent their are over 65 years old and dumpy at best, very little parking if any.

San Diego should be called LA South.

As long as they dont come to TJ its all good.

Move to my neighborhood in LA! My neighbors are paying $3,500/month rent 😂😂

Well, don’t come to Oregon, we already have too many Californias.

Almost bought a house in Normal Heights in 1999 that needed work for around I think 140k. As a 22 year old I thought “eh I don’t want that responsibility right now.” I still kick myself at the age of 46 for not buying it. Oh well, it’s far out of my price range forever it seems now.

it’s expensive where ever you go! it’s your sanity peace & love 💕 so sad you must leave to survive sending aloha vibes & blessings we are all struggling i understand! my cost in hawaii food shipping school’s medical etc…..

Whoever is reading this from outside of California I just know that that San Diego is the good child in this Los Angeles county is 10 times worse the only place still exist in order is Ventura county to some parts cops and attorneys up there don't play games

The government has to pass housing affordability legislation. Nothing else will stop predatory banks and landlords' extreme exploitation..

988 square foot house =$3950.

It's March 2024, and a 3 bedroom apt in mira mesa is $5K. Smh.

Cost of living is too high, too many homeless , crime and prostitution and dirty Ocean water from TJ . Things that originally attracted me to San Diego are gone . Bye bye

they are going to find out that the Grass Is NOT Greener on the other side of the fence....

But you keep electing DEMOCRATS

They keep saying that but I never see any changes I still see a ton of people everywhere

Stop selling the property to criminals from overseas who are laundering dirty money, we have the same problem here in Africa, too much of our best real estate is in Chinese hands along with key infrastructure

You said the US Census is how you calculate people moving wake up U-Haul is the the accurate information they keep track of all moving companies and moving truck rental companies that's where you get accurate information Mr news reporter

We need humanitarian aid in San Diego

I'm leaving San Diego in about 4 months, too expensive