Cheap areas inland (San Diego, Lancaster, Redlands: college, living in, car)

[matt_sfl]

I lived in Tucson, AZ for maybe 6 months. This was like 15 years ago. To be honest I liked it. I spent a summer there and it was hot, but not much worse than Florida. At least you could utilize water to help keep you cool there. And it was cheap there too! I had never been to California at the time, but Tucson felt how California would have been. My brother called me from San Diego and said, "get in your car and keep going west! They're surfing at the pier right now!" So I did, and of course loved CA. What I was getting at was maybe there are cheaper inland areas of LA that have a rugged desert feel to them. I don't think I'd want to live in Lancaster, all the way over the mountains. But maybe there's areas in the inland empire that have the feel I'm talking about. That way I'd still be living in the LA metropolis. Any areas?

[1200RT]

Where will you be commuting to? There are definitely areas in "the IE" that will feel like Arizona. Obviously, the closer you get to AZ, the more like AZ it will be. That made me dizzy.

I went to college in Redlands, and spent several summers there. That sure did feel like Arizona.

[matt_sfl]

In the end I just want my address to end in a "...,CA" Sometimes I look at my old California driver's license. I can't believe it was for real.

[Count David]

The Inland Empire it is.

[ferretkona]

Look at Paso Robles, 30 minutes from the beach.