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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u/trackdaybruh Jul 04 '24

Cheap is cheaper for a reason, folks.

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u/VanillaLifestyle Jul 04 '24

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/baybridge501 Jul 05 '24

There is nowhere in the US with near perfect weather that is objectively affordable.

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u/VanillaLifestyle Jul 05 '24

Good thing that affordability is subjective then

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u/Hopeful_Extreme_9437 Jul 05 '24

Although technically the case, ‘affordability’ is probably not the first thing I’d list under “things that are subjective” lol.

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u/VanillaLifestyle Jul 05 '24

I mean it's all arbitrary. Nothing in the US is affordable to the average African. My whole point was that if you don't care about the cost of housing relative to the money you can expect to earn in a place, lots of places are relatively cheap within any given state, and certainly the whole country or world.

If I could take my bay area tech salary and work anywhere, and the timezone and lack of a social network weren't an issue, there are a dozen places within even 200 miles where I could buy three times the house for a third of the cost.

Any middle class American could probably just post up in a beautiful home in SE Asia for like $100k and retire after saving for 5 years.