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25 miles north puts you in east L.A. No thanks. No commute benefit at all (not to mention anything close to L.A. is a schithole, IMHO). Maybe if I were still working at my old office (Glendale) it would have some merit, but right now my work is here in LGB and my wife's is in Anaheim. Plus anything inland is pretty much a hole. An expensive, overcrowded hole. I like being by the water.

25 miles south is in O.C. (Huntington or Laguna Niguel area). One of about 3-4 places in the country that's more expensive than here (NYC, San Fran, Hawaii and O.C. are statistically the only ones more expensive than LA/Long Beach but that's about it). Commute would be a bit of a wash (closer for my wife, longer for me - net zero-sum game). If we had no chance of ever affording our own place here, it's a virtual guarantee we'll never afford one down there.