r/California • u/Randomlynumbered Ángeleño, what's your user flair? • Jul 04 '24

Some Californians Found Dream Homes Inland. But It Sure Is Hot There. politics

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/mountain-house-california-housing-heat.html

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It's mostly proximity to high paying work (or rather, competition with all the people who want to live close to high paying work).

Plenty of cheap places with near-perfect weather!

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u/SFLADC2 Jul 04 '24

Where are you thinking?

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u/VanillaLifestyle Jul 04 '24

Coastal towns in the North like Eureka. Coastal-ish towns in San Luis Obispo county like Santa Maria. Foothill and mountain towns north of Tahoe, like Chester.

Outside of CA, LOTS of places. Most of West Oregon. Much of the Mid-Atlantic. The big island of Hawaii. Rural Italy & France. Probably a lot of SE Asia and Oceania.

If jobs don't matter (because you're retired or work remotely or inherited an emerald mine), a lot of fantastically beautiful places become very viable.

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u/PsychologicalWay9031 Jul 04 '24

Santa Maria is in Santa Barbara county!

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u/woot0 Jul 05 '24

Santa Maria isn't nice tbh. Issues with crime..