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Is the San Francisco Bay Area's population and/or jobs growing? Why or why not?

• Other metro areas like DC and Miami appear to be growing faster than San Francisco. I think a lot of the jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area are large companies which mostly already have all the people they need (e.g. Yahoo!, Adobe, Apple, HP, and especially, Google). Is that true? If not, could you give me a detailed outlook of the SF Bay Area's job growth? Some people have moved out due to the earthquakes. San Francisco's cost of living is slightly lower than NYC and employers pay slightly higher in SF than NYC. Most of the population is growing in the Southern and Western US. Is San Francisco an exception? What industries of the San Franciso Bay Area are growing and what industries are major already? Transportation, since SF has a mass transit problem? Tourism? Population grew by 4.71% between the 2000 census and 2009 estimate, from 4,123,740 to 4,317,853. Is that a small, medium, or large difference for an area like the San Francisco Bay Area over 9 years? San Francisco is one of the cities I am considering. Most of my family lives in Philadelphia. How expensive is it to fly to and from Philadelphia and San Francisco? I know the flight can take 4-5 hours. Also, San Francisco is a major air hub. Does that mean coast-to-coast tickets are more expensive or less expensive compared to other West and East Coast airports (e.g. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Washington-Dulles)? If so, approximately how much? I know I've asked a lot of questions. I'm trying to get as much info as I can. Best answer, by me or by voters, 10 points.

• Answer:

  okay being that I've lived here for the past 8 years or so...some of your facts may be wrong. No one moves because of earthquakes. Even if they wanted to, there's no money to make that move possible...besides that, the earthquakes are hardly noticable despite what the media portrays. Maybe there's one that you feel about once every four months--It lasts for about 3 seconds and then it's over. To get an idea of what this feels like, sit down in a rocking chair. That's about it. The large companies seem to be hiring more lately, but there are so many people and so many college graduates that even high schoolers can fit the qualifications of say...adobe. Because we can learn programming and graphic design in high school so it makes the jobs compeditive. If adobe is hiring for two jobs, over two thousand will respond. Only two out of those two thousand will get the job. Secondly, when the college grads who don't get the job look for just 'any job', such as the starbucks on the corner in order to get by, the people at starbucks who do not have a college education that are to hire them often get intimidated by the college grad's ambition and won't hire because they don't want their job to be jeapordized a year later. The population growth is really unnoticable, all people who live here know is that there's a LOT of people. That's all. The flight from Philly to SF is probably going to be $200, because that's average for a plane ticket if you book it far in advance (think two months) Tickets are cheaper if you're going from SF to a major tourist sight, such as SF to Vegas would be easy to find a deal for like...$60. Tourism is a smaller industry than you think it would be. The growing industries I've seen is 1. anything with fashion, but not retail. (Retail seems to be shrinking. It's not like other cities where any high school kid or college student can apply to 10 places and know they're going to get hired for at least one place. Retail now looks for people more specialized in that position, such as the college student who is getting a degree in fashion merchandizing, or the person who has five years experience in retail already. So in some ways it's taken just as seriously as the .com company jobs) The money is tight in the sense that even though they may get paid more compaired to NYC, but here there have been situations where no one gets a holiday bonus, or there have been no raises granted. I would say that people in San Francisco itself get paid more sure, because the minimum wage is higher, but so are the cost of living. For example, I live in down town san francisco, and have four other roommates. We pay about 1.5 (per person) a month for two bedrooms, a nice kitchen, and a living room. but once you get to the other side of the bay there's a dramatic difference. SF has a transit problem durring rush hour in the way that you don't move much, but all the stopping and starting is really taxing on gas prices. Saturday mornings is also another rough trip, but other than that..any time after 10 pm in down town san francisco, the city becomes more like a ghost town, and the only people out are the bums and college students. Lastly the bums. Don't be fooled. In living in Down Town sf, they leech upon the tourists, because many people who aren't from here find themselves shocked at the amount of homelessness around. Rest assured that they make more money than you and they choose to live that lifestyle. Many of them are great actors that will tell you anything to get your money. You cannot feel sorry for these bums, you cannot give them your money, because walking two or three blocks down the most busy street in the city (powell) you'll likely get asked 5 times for money. I would say SF is definitely the kind of city where you will get what you pay for in terms of living. Obviously if you find an apartment that's $800 a month, you can assume it's a dump where someone has been murdered in the past, and an ant or roach problem. If you pay $1500, you're probably in a nicer and newer studio apartment. $2.3k will land you somewhere like a nice two bedroom apartment, and so on, so before you move here, Roughly figure that it will cost 1.2k per person a month as far as living, if you want somewhere safe and nice. Lastly I will say about the job situation, you'll probably find yourself over worked because you have to. Usually they say you work 8 hour days, get your pay check every two weeks...but here they will lay off people who don't go above and beyond what they signed up for. People here will work 10 hours to ensure job security. Oh yeah and another thing, if you have children or ever want children do not sign them up for public schools in the city, or most of the places in the bay area. And don't move to Oakland or Vallejo. You'll regret it.