How do you afford to live in California? (living, rail)

[.highnlite]

-You live in an "undesirable", less expensive part of CA.

Undesirable is pretty darned subjective. Many Californians would consider living in an urban area highly undesirable, others would find it desirable.

I consider Arvin far more desirable than the Santa Monica hills, others wouldn't.

[caligirlz]

Originally Posted by gone down south

OP has a high salary but a lot of debt. He's fresh out of school so doesn't have a lot of experience with financial matters. He asked an honest question about how to handle his affairs.

I find it odd that the OP is asking for financial advice on an on-line forum. A better source of info would be a financial planner.

[nullgeo]

Originally Posted by caligirlz

I find it odd that the OP is asking for financial advice on an on-line forum. A better source of info would be a financial planner.

I find it incredibly odd that anybody takes anything seriously on this forum ... but, there you go ...

[caligirlz]

Originally Posted by nullgeo

I find it incredibly odd that anybody takes anything seriously on this forum ... but, there you go ...

there you go making assumptions again....

[asoltech]

Hello everyone nice post.

[Mr.Kurtz]

Most Financial Planners are in debt themselves. I rented office space to a well known American Express ' Financial Planner ', and he was always late paying the rent and he had serious $ problems.

FPss idea of planning money now-a-days ... Roll of the dice.

My advice: Use you're own common sense judgement.

[Mr.Kurtz]

I advise .... Never employ the servcies of a Financial Planner ... Complete waste of $.

Your hard earned Dollar ( or Portfolio ) is being controlled by greedy Jewish men on Wall Street.

Use common sense when diversifing: RE, Gold, Stocks, invest in local business, etc.

Don't do it.

[AllenSJC]

Just for the record....my initial post in this thread pretty much a joke post. Sorry.

Anyway, on a more serious note, a lot of people in this area (South SF Bay Area) are two-income households (sometimes more than that). Those who are single-income, either have high-paying jobs or live in more modest arrangements.

There's also, of course, many people who paid off their homes before the market really exploded in the 90s.

[Snort]

Originally Posted by nullgeo

I find it incredibly odd that anybody takes anything seriously on this forum ... but, there you go ...

I buy all my stocks from advice gleaned from the business and finance thread on this site.

[nullgeo]

Originally Posted by Snort

I buy all my stocks from advice gleaned from the business and finance thread on this site.

Well, yeah ... but aside from that ....