[LEMONS] 8.27.2001
I'd heard this U-Haul rumor, but it seemed too juicy to be true. Could there really be a U-Haul shortage in the Bay Area? Two people told me about it, seperately, on Friday, so it is becoming the talk of the town. But was it true? The only source I heard cited was fuckedcompany. In a word, sorta. A Lexis search turned up 19 articles. Interestingly, Sacramento, San Diego, and Los Angeles papers all had articles claiming their cities were on the receiving end of the Great Bay Area Exodus. And although one article did quote a local U-Haul manger as saying he was running out of trucks, it doesn't appear that there are no U-Haul trucks in San Francisco, as the rumor goes. The passage I saw over and over was this: "moves out of the Bay Area using U-Haul outnumbered moves in by anywhere from 12.7 percent to 43 percent in various cities." Peep it on USA Today here.
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