Family moving to SLO county on 90-100K feasible?

[wac_432]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

What? Since when does a family of 5 qualify for welfare on a salary of $90-100 K in San Luis Obispo county? We are not talking about living in Brentwood or Newport Beach.

That poster left the area long ago and is clearly bitter about it. I would take the entire post with an enormous grain of salt, like any typical sour-grapes California-basher.

[Vic Romano]

Originally Posted by 2011KTM530

90-100K is doable for a family of five, but it will be tight. Your going to be Buying a two bedroom condo in Grover City or Oceano and kids will be in bunk beds. I think you might be on the edge of public assistance with 5 people in the household, so look into being on welfare and food stamps. Might as well get some tax payer money. I lived in that area for over 50 years and finally made my escape last year to another state. Best thing I ever did. SLO county is a nice area with great weather if you like to do stuff outdoors. But in the last five years it’s really gone down hill from what it used to be as I was growing up. Lots of homeless bums moving in and more on the way. Traffic is getting insane, daily traffic jam on the 101 going north to SLO and going south in the afternoon. Mostly driven by the wage slaves pouring out of Santa Maria, the most affordable housing in the area, to service the elite in SLO city. I could go on about how where I was as a kid we could shoot guns, ride motorcycles, camp, hike, build forts, 4x4, hunt, ect. but all that area is now cookie cutter homes, McMansions, golf courses, paved roads and no trespassing signs. Bottom line, it’s very expensive, the infrastructure is stretched to capacity, and it’s crowded with refugees from Los Angeles, the Valley and the Bay Area. And all the problems you have with a dense population and over regulation and........ it will just get worse.

Total BS. You're doing the OP a disservice. Ignore this poster.

[Bill the Butcher]

Originally Posted by Vic Romano

Total BS. You're doing the OP a disservice. Ignore this poster.

The whole food stamps thing is BS but I do think there are some points here. Traffic can be pretty bad on the stretch from SLO into 5 cities. $100K is a nice salary for one but nothing great for a family in the area. Especially a large family. It comes down to what is the OP looking for house wise? Is condo living acceptable? Unless the OP goes all the way north to Paso (not a terrible option but not ideal) or down south to Santa Maria/Orcutt (even less ideal), they are looking at 500K easy for a single family home. That would be stretched pretty thin on only 100K. Hopefully monthly health care premiums are low and not eating $1000 or more a month?

[bmw335xi]

SLO is beautiful, but hippy culture seems to be really big there, so if you are impatient at all, you might go crazy. Every employee I experienced worked and spoke in slow motion as if they were all high lol. People seemed friendly though, just so slow.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Bill the Butcher

The whole food stamps thing is BS but I do think there are some points here. Traffic can be pretty bad on the stretch from SLO into 5 cities. $100K is a nice salary for one but nothing great for a family in the area. Especially a large family. It comes down to what is the OP looking for house wise? Is condo living acceptable? Unless the OP goes all the way north to Paso (not a terrible option but not ideal) or down south to Santa Maria/Orcutt (even less ideal), they are looking at 500K easy for a single family home. That would be stretched pretty thin on only 100K. Hopefully monthly health care premiums are low and not eating $1000 or more a month?

Well, there's some important info missing from the OP. Is he currently a homeowner, with potential equity to put into a downpayment? That's pretty key info. And someone said, that on his salary, the kids would have to share a bunk bed. Is that such a horrible fate? lol. And yeah--would a townhome be acceptable?

Is the OP still with us on the thread?