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Those places are out in the boonies and largely dirt-poor. Lots of trailers and scrub lots.

Personally I'd avoid Riverside and the inland empire like the plague. They were EXTREMELY over-developed the last few years and will undoubtedly be among the markets that will take the worst baths in the housing collapse. Just like they did in the 1980s and 1990s. They tried to re-invent themselves as destinations and attract better jobs, etc. but at their core, they're still poor desert towns with few resources and opportunities - some exceptions, speaking in generalities here.

They're nice enough areas on their own, but they tend to be very poor, undeducated sorts of "desert communities" where jobs are scarce and largely unskilled. To commute from any of those locales to LA or other areas where the "better" jobs are would be complete insanity.