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Originally Posted by ckissick
I have been very fortunate. But I'm 61 now and worked my way up for a long time. What I see all the time around here nowadays are houses selling for 2 to 4 million to people in their late 20 and early thirties. (Not in our beach town, but "over the hill" in Silicon Valley proper. Houses here "only" cost 1.5 million.) They are invariably couples both working in high tech. I'm amazed at how many of them there are.
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Los Angeles has a lot of the same phenomena, lots of talented, creative, high earning young people driving the economy and RE market. Strangely enough, RE has only gotten hotter during 2020, which goes against all logic.
The complaints that many are voicing here are legitimate as well, CA used to be a place where normal working people could carve-out a good life for themselves and thrive, not so much anymore. The state, (frankly the world), just keeps getting more crowded and expensive. All of the decent places to live in America are experiencing an influx of people and rising costs of housing, etc.
I've absolutely loved living in Los Angeles for decades with the friends I have, the great restaurants everywhere, (including cheap food to grab and go), the climate and lifestyle that goes with it, including cars and motorcycles and other wheeeled stuff. I don't think many people in other places really grasp how great it can be on the ground level, no matter how many times they've visited for a few days. The old saying is true;
"it's a great place to live but I wouldn't want to visit..."
Anyhow, this is about the 72nd or 73rd California bashing thread since I've been here and they are all the same, with even the same people saying the same things in a lot of them. If you love living in Arizona or Nevada or Texas, god bless you. I wouldn't live in most of those places if you gave me a free house and a new GT3.
If I move anywhere, it's going to be a place w mild climate and LOTS of water. Water will be the big commodity in the future and places like Arizona will be prison camps for really bad people, IMO. My parents had the perfect life in northern WI. from April to October, then New Mexico in the winter. I'm leaning that way.
Los Angeles has lost a lot of appeal in 2020 but let's face it, this ain't a normal year. I ditched the place back in March and about to go back for the first time, I just hope that my car is in the garage where I left it.
