• Rachel Pohl and her husband left San Francisco and traveled around the USA for about a year.

• When Pohl became pregnant, they finally began looking for a place to settle down.

• They thought Durham, North Carolina, would be the answer, but Chattanooga, Tennessee, ultimately became their home.

San Francisco is home to the Golden Gate Bridge, has been the setting for the television series “Raven's Adventure” and “Full House,” and is home to a strong professional and business services workforce.

It's also an expensive city, with more people moving away from it than moving to other parts of the United States.

Rachel Pohl, 34, who lived in San Francisco for several years, and her husband Jesse Rosenthal are just two of the people who left. After traveling around the U.S. for about a year, they are happy to have settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Pohl said that although she was also happy in San Francisco and enjoyed life there, at her current stage of life she is “grateful to be able to call Chattanooga home.” She and her husband moved to the city of more than 180,000 residents in late 2021.

They had been considering moving away from California for some time before leaving San Francisco in the fall of 2020.

“Obviously, it's very expensive and difficult to buy a home and raise a family,” she said. Pohl said they also wanted to live closer to family and be somewhere where life was “slower” than the more hectic big city of San Francisco, which is home to over 800,000 people.

“I think the overall situation and quality of life there is more difficult than in smaller or medium-sized cities because of the cost of living,” said Pohl.

The California wildfires in August 2020 were another reason for the couple's decision to leave the country. “It was around that time that we thought, let's leave California. It's time,” Pohl said.

“A great nomad tour through the USA”

During the pandemic, the pair were able to leave San Francisco thanks to flexible remote work and decided to explore the country, see the sights and decide where they would settle. “We went on a big nomadic tour of the USA,” Pohl said.

They packed up their things and moved some items to storage. Pohl said goodbye to the city she had called home for years and where she had met her husband. The two set off for Airbnb accommodations across the US.

Montana was one of the states they visited. Chattanooga was another place they saw on their trip and she found it “very beautiful and lovely.”

“It was spring and the flowers were blooming and I thought, 'This is a beautiful place,'” she added. She and her husband moved on, but after about a year of traveling, they finally moved there because they were looking for a permanent place after learning Pohl was pregnant. Pohl said she and her husband liked the size and energy of Chattanooga.

“It seemed to me that for the size of the city there was enough and plenty going on, but not overwhelming,” she said.

In the summer of 2021, they landed in Durham, North Carolina, before leaving Chattanooga, in part because of the potential job opportunities there. But Pohl said the place just didn't appeal to them.

“We thought if we could choose any place in the U.S., we just wanted to love it and feel comfortable with our decision,” Pohl said. “So we decided then to return to Chattanooga. We hadn't been there since the spring.”

The family-friendly location and other advantages of Chattanooga

Pohl likes the access to nature in Chattanooga.

“We like to hike, go river walking and paddle,” she said. “We like to take our son to playgrounds and parks. It's all very accessible.”

Pohl said people in Chattanooga are also friendly and she considers it a family-friendly place. She has also found that people are more diverse when it comes to jobs, in contrast to the dominance of the tech industry in the San Francisco area.

“I met entrepreneurs in the food and beverage industry and people doing all kinds of things,” Pohl said of Chattanooga. “It felt approachable and accessible here to do that.”

Chattanooga is also much more affordable for homebuyers than San Francisco. According to Realtor.com, both San Francisco and Chattanooga are currently buyers' markets where “the supply of homes exceeds the demand for homes.” While that may be the case, Realtor.com also shows that the median sales price for homes in Chattanooga is well below the national price in San Francisco – $347,500, or about $1.1 million.

“It's just a lot easier to buy a nice, bigger house in Tennessee and Chattanooga,” she said. “You can go a lot further with your money here. We thought about buying a house in California, but in the end we thought it didn't make sense because of the cost, because of the distance from family and just the whole situation. We thought let's move there.”

Although Pohl is happy in Tennessee, she misses the cuisine in San Francisco and access to some of the national parks nearby. Pohl told BI that she has visited San Francisco since moving away, mostly for work. And while she loves the energy in Chattanooga, there's something special about the energy in California, too.

“It's such a beautiful state,” Pohl said of California. “Sometimes I miss the energy a little bit, but I feel like that was an active part of my decision to move away from the big city, but there's so much innovation there around technology and AI. From a professional perspective, I miss that sometimes.”

Have you moved from San Francisco or anywhere else in the U.S.? Contact this reporter at mhoff@businessinsider.com to share your moving experience.

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Nearly six-and-a-half years since Whole Foods called dibs on the vacated Best Buy space in City Center plaza at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue, the SF Planning Commission finally authorized the Amazon-owned grocery chain to move into the space Thursday.

There was plenty of excitement when a Whole Foods opened on mid-Market in March 2022, bringing an upscale spark into a long-beleaguered part of town. But that Whole Foods lasted barely a year, partially because of drug use and terrible street conditions, though employees also said that “Sales weren’t too great” at the location.

Though now it looks like there’s another Whole Foods coming, albeit at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue.

The Anza Vista Best Buy store at City Center plaza closed way back in September 2017, and the 50,000 square-foot location has sat totally empty there since. And then Amazon-owned Whole Foods announced their plans to open a store in that vacated spot within a month of the closure, but Whole Foods has experienced a long obstacle course of very San Francisco hurdles since.

First, the Target store in that plaza (which also sells groceries) tried to block the Whole Foods in a big-box store pissing match. That eventually got resolved, but then the SF Board of Supervisors approved an appeal against the Whole Foods brought by a local grocery workers’ union. That appeal forced Whole Foods to submit their yet-again revised plans for the location in January 2023, this time mitigating concerns over “air quality impacts” over their refrigeration equipment, cooling towers, and HVAC units.  

That revised plan came back before the SF Planning Commission on Thursday. And in a unanimous 7-0 vote, the commission approved a new Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for that Whole Foods, and authorized its permit for use as a grocery store.  

“This is a big opportunity site, very big intersection, very big formula retail shopping center,” commissioner Joel Koppel said before the vote.

This will be the eighth Whole Foods store in San Francisco. And it was approved unanimously with surprisingly little discussion, despite all the previous controversy. This may be a sign that attitudes toward formula retail are changing as SF struggles with commercial vacancies. Or maybe it’s just that people are sick of seeing this City Center plaza feel like a graveyard after departures of Best Buy, Sears, Mervyn’s, and Toys ‘R’ Us.

Related: Whole Foods Moves In Again On Long-Vacant Former Best Buy Location at Geary and Masonic [SFist]

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Buyer, dream big! A 611-square-foot home with an intriguing backstory recently hit the market for $898,000.

The one-bedroom, one-bathroom cottage in San Francisco was built it 1907 and is said to be one of the original “earthquake shacks” built by the city to house refugees of the devastating 1906 earthquake.

In the aftermath of the quake, the city built 5,300 small, rent-to-own cottages for those who needed housing. After paying off a new home, the owners were required to move their cottages away from the refugee camp to another part of the city. A handful of those dwellings, including this charmer, still exist today.

“Originally, it was down in the Glen Park valley and moved up to Congo Street sometime when building [after the fire] started up again,” says listing agent Paul J. Andreini. “No documentation exists, and it may be folklore, but that’s what [the seller] told me.”

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The seller, who Andreini refers to as “Mr. G,” purchased the home in 1959 for $800 and has since used it as a rental space.

The modest residence comes with refinished hardwood floors, central heating, a basement laundry room, and an adjacent yard.

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A petite pad with potential?

We’ve seen our fair share of diminutive dwellings with eye-popping price tags—especially in the City by the Bay. This 640-square-foot home, also an original “earthquake shack,” was offered at $1.38 million and sold for just shy of $1.5 million. And who can forget the teardown shack that was listed back in 2015 for $350,000 (a bargain by San Francisco standards!) and most recently sold for $622,000?

Even so, it’s impossible to look at this current listing and the price per square foot (which is $1,470, by the way) and not roll your eyes. But, as is the case with many unique properties, it’s still worth considering what could be.

“People and agents get caught up in the price per square foot—they don’t see the potential,” says Andreini, who suggests buying the property for $900K and investing another $800K into a remodel.

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One idea Andreini shares is to relocate the 611-square-foot structure to the property’s backyard and use it as an ADU, then build a contemporary dwelling in front. Another possibility is to leave the cottage as the third-level primary en suite and build a two-floor expansion on the rest of the lot.

Of course, as fun as it is to “play architect,” Andreini urges buyers to do their homework.

“Buyers must first do their due diligence before making an offer, if they’re planning to get creative,” Andreini wrote in a concept drawing he shared with us. “We recommend talking to a local architect, one familiar with the San Francisco Planning Department.”

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Australian share opened in line with losses on Wall Street, after the latest US inflation data renewed bets that the Federal Reserve is not yet done lifting interest rates.

The S&P/ASX 200 dropped 50 points, or 0.7 per cent at open, to 7040.6. The All Ordinaries was also down 0.7 per cent.

Rate sensitive companies were sold off with real estate the worst performing of the 11 sectors to be down 1.5 per cent. Utilities stocks were the only group to move higher in early trade to be up 0.3 per cent.

Meanwhile, the local currency plunged 1.6 per cent overnight below US64¢ and is trading at around US63.13¢ with the US dollar set to post its best session in five weeks. Looking ahead, CPI and PPI from China will be released just after midday.

What happened overnight

The US sharemarket turned lower, with the S&P 500 down 0.6 per cent, after US core consumer prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.3 per cent last month. Headline prices were 0.4 per cent higher. Both metrics were forecast to rise 0.3 per cent.

The year-on-year growth rate held at 3.7 per cent, whereas economists had forecast a drop to 3.6 per cent.

“I think the [Fed’s policy committee] would look at this and still conclude that underlying inflationary pressures remain too hot for their liking,” Scotiabank’s Derek Holt said.

The yield on the US 10-year note surged 13 basis points to 4.69 per cent at 4.30pm in New York. The two-year yield, more sensitive to rate moves, reached 5.07 per cent, and the 30-year yield was at 4.86 per cent.

Stocks on the move

Pact Group fell 1.4 per cent after billionaire Raphael Geminder’s plan to take his struggling packaging company off the ASX hit a major speed bump. Shareholders being urged to reject the deal following an independent review.

ResMed is trading 2.4 per cent lower and near its 52-week low following a note from brokers at RBC, which that downgraded stock to perform from outperform.

Bega Cheese is up 1.6 per cent after analysts at Bell Potter upgraded the foods business to a buy rating.

Perpetual is up 1.4 per cent after its assets under management held steady in the September quarter, in a sign flows may be stabilising for the struggling funds management firm.

Harvey Norman shares, which trade ex-dividend as of today, are down 3.9 per cent.

Fletcher Building will brief investors and analysts later today to provide an update on its Western Australian plumbing issues. Shares remain in a trading halt and last traded at $4.45

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August 10-12 marks the 19th annual Lincoln Highway Buy Way Yard Sales across the State of Ohio.

The historic Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental road for automobile travel in the United States, dedicated in 1913 and extending from New York City’s Times Square to San Francisco’s Lincoln Park. Combined, various routes across Ohio comprise over 400 miles today. 

Past Buy Way sales have seen families, neighbors and groups of all kinds selling their wares from yards, porches, barns and garages; under tents and in open-air locations. A number of communities have group sales in public parks and other locations. 

The idea began in 2005 and has spawned a variety of activities from Convoy, near the Indiana state line, to East Liverpool on the Ohio River across from West Virginia. 

The sales will run from Thursday, August 10 through Saturday, August 12. In Allen County, from west to east, the primary route of the Lincoln Highway was from Delphos to Gomer, Cairo and Beaverdam.  An earlier version ran from Delphos through Elida and Lima.  It continued through the Hardin County communities of Ada, Dola, Dunkirk and Forest. In Hancock County, the primary route included New Stark and Williamstown.

Please visit www.historicbyway.com for sale locations and activities along Ohio’s Lincoln Highway.

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The Oakland Athletics are not currently for sale, which is a disgrace to the players, fans, citizens of Oakland and East Bay, the MLB and the A’s humanity.

But what if team owner John Fisher went through a Grinch-like personality shift and decided to sell his ball club to someone to take care of it?

It could happen. Fisher and his trusty sidekick Dave Kaval have given up Oakland and are trying to conquer Las Vegas for a great deal. If this plan continues to fail like a fish plucked from the crystal clear waters of San Francisco Bay and thrown onto the scorching hot desert sands of Nevada, perhaps Fisher will do humanity a favor and sell him.

theirs? Let’s try some possibilities, real and surreal.

Golden State Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob is the most likely candidate to become the first A’s team owner with heart since the Haas family sold the franchise in 1995. We’re not saying that Lacob doesn’t like making money from his sports investments, but on the scale of ownership motivation, from naked greed to outright altruism, Lacob is at the opposite end of the spectrum from Fisher. He also told The Chronicle’s John Shea that he was still ready to get started.

“I’ve had a standing offer for I don’t know how long to buy the A’s by John Fisher. Over a decade,” Lacob said. “It’s up to him; it is his business.”

The change in ownership from a slouching penny squeezer to an enlightened team builder would come as a shock to the system of fans, but they would recover quickly – and rejoice. Lacob would quickly build a ballpark and pay real salaries, plus he would take the opportunity to rebuild his sports legacy in Oakland, where he is considered a team sleeper.

Tech billionaire Larry Ellison could be lurking in the dark. A few years ago there were rumors that Ellison wanted to buy the A’s and not just build a new ballpark on the Coliseum lot, but build an entire city on thousands of surrounding acres. Unfortunately, Fisher didn’t sell.

Lacob may want to team up with Reggie Jackson and create a partnership of people who were barred from buying the A’s in 2005, when then-commissioner Bud Selig staged a sale to his college buddy Lew Wolff, then Fisher’s minority partner.

Jackson recently claimed his group was turned away despite making the winning bid. Lacob claims he actually struck a deal with the previous owners just to get Selig to go through with the plan. So Joe and Reggie have been waiting for years to revive this team.

One willing buyer is Oakland-based African American Sports and Entertainment Group. Negotiations are under way to purchase a 50% interest in the Coliseum property (Fisher buys the other 50% from Alameda County). AASEG has the money, strong local leadership, big plans and political flair. And god knows, MLB could use minority representation.

Sports heroes and stars are an increasingly attractive group for sports ownership. Some possibilities:

Stephen Curry. Magic Johnson, formerly a minority owner of the Lakers, owns smaller stakes (2.3%) in the Dodgers and owns portions of a football team and a WNBA team. Who is the Magic of the Bay Area? steph

The Warriors did not leave Oakland, however, Curry and his wife Ayesha. You have made a huge contribution to Oakland’s fight against hunger and the promotion of children’s literacy and physical activity. Buying the A’s, or at least leading a group, would cement the Curries as Oakland Saints.

Music drives Oakland, so why shouldn’t music makers own the A’s? Lots of big names with local ties like rappers Too Short, Del the Funky Homosapien, E-40 and G-Eazy. And don’t forget MC Hammer, who started out as a youthful team “manager” for the A’s in the final years of the Charles Finley regime. (Finley nicknamed young Stanley “Hammer”.)

How about this: Create a Legends of Baysball ownership group. Joe Morgan was part of a syndicate that tried to buy the A’s in 2000, another deal that was torpedoed by Selig at the last minute. Morgan is no longer with us, but Reggie and Rickey Henderson are. Bring along baysball heroes from different ball sports like Marshawn Lynch, Gary Payton, Rick Barry and Damian Lillard.

Here’s another fantasy ownership combo: Kevin Costner and Don Johnson. Johnson received his acting training from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He played the role of a San Francisco police officer on the television series Nash Bridges. Costner has been in five (!) baseball movies, so you know where his heart lies. He would be the only MLB owner to wear a full uniform and sit in the dugout.

Last and stupidest idea: Donald Trump. He once owned a USFL team before single-handedly destroying that league. He’s been trying to buy an NFL team for a long time. And he was a star baseball player in high school, if by his own (unconfirmed) testimony you call that what it’s worth.

Pros: Trump would be so busy building a winner after his image that he wouldn’t have time to dabble in politics. He could destroy the A’s, but the world would be saved.

Also, he would replace the Oakland Coliseum’s old plumbing fixtures with gold fixtures.

All candidate owners have one thing in common: any one of them would be an upgrade.

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CHICAGO — The Bears have finalized their deal to purchase land in Arlington Heights, taking a big step forward to potentially moving the team to the suburbs.

The team announced in a Wednesday tweet that officials were shut down at the suburban property last week. However, the purchase does not guarantee that the team will leave. City officials have negotiated with team leaders to keep the bears in Chicago, and the bears still need support from suburban leaders and potential neighbors.

“Completing the purchase does not guarantee the land will be developed, but it is an important next step in our ongoing evaluation of the property,” team officials tweeted.

“There is still a tremendous amount of due diligence work to be done to determine if building a gated, state-of-the-art stadium and multi-purpose entertainment district is feasible.”

The deal is a “big development” of the potential move, but “there has been no decision” on whether the Bears will make the proposed Arlington Heights venue, according to a letter from the team.

But if the team goes ahead with their idea for the suburban campus, it would be “one of the largest megaprojects in Midwestern history,” according to the letter.

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The Arlington Park campus would be built on 326 acres on the site of the former Churchill Downs racecourse, which closed for racing late last season.

It would be “much more than a stadium project,” the team wrote in September as they unveiled possible plans for the development.

RELATED: Bears reveal what Arlington Heights Stadium campus could look like

The campus would include a “multipurpose entertainment, commercial/retail and residential district,” according to the Bears website. It could include restaurants, office space, a hotel, fitness center, parks and open spaces.

However, the site has repeatedly pointed out that campus will only become a reality when certain things happen: when the team closes the property and when the team decides to develop it.

Now the team has completed this first step.

The Bears have said the development could create more than 48,000 jobs and generate $9.4 billion for the Chicago-area economy. But company officials have said they would want public funding for the project.

“The overarching plan will only work if the village of Arlington Heights, surrounding communities, Cook County, the greater Chicagoland area and the state of Illinois all receive significant economic benefits, and we are confident that a mega-project like this can deliver results,” he said the team’s letter.

The team held meetings with Arlington Heights residents to gather their feedback. A September gathering drew more than 100 neighbors who applauded when the Bears said their Arlington Heights stadium would have a roof — only for the crowd to groan when the team said the roof would not be retractable.

Chicago officials have hoped to keep the team during months of negotiations at Soldier Field.

The announcement is the latest twist in the stadium drama between the Bears and the city of Chicago – a saga that stretches back to the ’70s when the team first threatened to leave Soldier Field for Arlington Heights.

The City and Bears rebuilt Soldier Field in 2002, but it remains the smallest-capacity stadium in the NFL. And the bears are Park District tenants, which means they pay rent and share many of the revenue streams.

Lightfoot has tried to persuade the team to stay by offering to build a dome over the stadium, but many saw this as a Hail Mary with little chance of keeping the team within city limits.

Separately, Landmark Development has also proposed a glamorous overhaul of Soldier Field, releasing a nearly six-minute video in January showing designs to address many of the Bears’ complaints about the stadium.

Lightfoot’s office said at the time the mayor supported the developer’s efforts.

But the mayor has also tried to play tough at times, poking fun at the team’s struggles on the field and suggesting how Soldier Field could be rehabilitated without the bears. She has also hinted that if the Bears left, Chicago would attract another football team to the city.

The Bears moved to Park District’s Soldier Field in 1971, but several years later threatened to move to Arlington Heights. Then-Mayor Richard J. Daley threatened a lawsuit to prevent them from calling themselves Chicago Bears if they relocated. His son, Mayor Richard M. Daley, also engaged in years of tense negotiations with the team, which threatened to relocate to Gary, Indiana in 1995.

The Bears could terminate the Soldier Field lease as early as 2026 by paying the city an $84 million penalty, the Tribune reported. This price will decrease in the coming years.

Big city teams opting for more space in the suburbs are not unprecedented. The New York Giants and New York Jets relocated to New Jersey from the city decades ago. The San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys and Washington Commanders also play outside of the cities they are named after.

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San Francisco’s building buying spree has been granted millions more dollars from the state to set up permanent housing for homeless young adults and families.

Mayor London Breed’s office said Wednesday that it’s receiving $73.4 million in new funding from Project Homekey, a statewide program that gives out grants for counties to purchase housing for people living on the streets or in other marginal circumstances. The new award will support the city’s acquisition of two properties totaling 250 units, including one apartment complex for families.

Those properties, City Gardens at 333 12th St. and Mission Inn at 5630 Mission St., are two of eight acquisitions the city has made since the pandemic with a combination of local, state and federal dollars.

A Google Street View of Mission Inn at 5630 Mission Street in San Francisco.

The 52-room Mission Inn, formerly a motel, will serve as housing for transitional-age youth, or young people between the ages of 18 and 24. Dolores Street Community Services will operate the housing, and Larkin Street Youth Services will provide on- site social services.

City Gardens, formerly owned by the developer Panoramic Interests, is a 200-unit apartment complex in SoMa intended to house homeless families, which Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing spokesperson Emily Cohen called a “game-changer” for families who may be staying in shelters or packed into small SROs.

“We had been struggling, frankly, to find a property to accommodate families with children,” said Cohen. “When we found City Gardens, it was a natural good fit.”

The city’s ongoing acquisitions are part of a broader statewide effort to house California’s growing homeless population in underused hotels, motels and apartment buildings. Since first launching Project Roomkey, which funded temporary lodgings during the Covid pandemic, the state has rolled that effort into the more permanent Project Homekey and awarded $3.5 billion in grants so far.

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The city began soliciting applications from building owners looking to offload their buildings in 2020 and has sought to find places fit for permanent supportive housing, or low-cost housing that wraps in on-site social services. The city has not yet identified a property manager and social service provider for the City Gardens site.

The new $73.4 million grant will offset the costs of the latest two buildings and free up funds to buy more property, part of an effort by Breed to buy or lease at least 1,500 units of permanent supportive housing.

Since launching that initiative in July 2020, the city has added 2,918 units, which includes property purchases and rental vouchers, to the city’s supportive housing portfolio.

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