‘Customers are calling us crying’: scams and soaring prices as Californians move out

Record numbers of residents have been leaving California in recent years, but in 2020 the growth of remote work, the lure of cheaper housing and a summer of unprecedented wildfires has accelerated the trend. As a result, the moving business in San Francisco’s Bay Area is booming, but the surge has come with its own set of problems. Moving trucks are hard to find, prices to get out of the Bay are being pushed sky-high, and the supply side of the…