Good news if you don't have a car in LA (Los Angeles: home, buy)

[thelopez2]

Originally Posted by lewimaech235

It's the nice that you know where the deals are.
Heh, Compton has national average prices, but yeah.. Compton.

I'm not the only one who knows where the deals are, look at the 405N in the morning or the 101E. These people choose to drive an hour a day to not pay the prices you read about.

[Texamichiforniasota]

Originally Posted by lewimaech235

Yeah, anywhere from 70-90 don't really appeal to be. I'll go with 65 degrees, or below, and that's perfect enough for me.

There's nowhere in the Midwest that doesn't spend most of the summer above 65. If you want weather that rarely gets above 65, you're pretty much limited to Anchorage or San Francisco. From December through May, the average high in Santa Monica is <65. July through Oct is around 70 for a average high. The rest of the beach cities in LA are similar.

[lewimaech235]

Originally Posted by Texamichiforniasota

There's nowhere in the Midwest that doesn't spend most of the summer above 65. If you want weather that rarely gets above 65, you're pretty much limited to Anchorage or San Francisco. From December through May, the average high in Santa Monica is <65. July through Oct is around 70 for a average high. The rest of the beach cities in LA are similar.

Well, no kidding. I never said it was perfect, but I'll give you that there aren't many areas around that are like that, but it would be neat. I could manage in Anchorage.

[Texamichiforniasota]

Originally Posted by munchitup

I think one thing to note with this study is they take the entire CSA into account. I think LA actually would have done better in the study if they just took the LA - LB - Santa Ana metro area for the study. The Inland Empire adds a great deal of population to LA's figure but a scant amount of walkable areas (Downtown Riverside really might be the only real walkable neighborhood in the IE). There are no shortage of walkable neighborhoods in Southern California. If you look, the LA area has the 2nd most "walk-ups" in the country, which I believe is their code for walkable neighborhoods.

Ahh, I was trying to figure out how LA could possibly rate below KC, Houston, Cleveland, Atlanta and Columbus.

[lewimaech235]

Originally Posted by Texamichiforniasota

Ahh, I was trying to figure out how LA could possibly rate below KC, Houston, Cleveland, Atlanta and Columbus.

It depends what they were using to determine.

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by thelopez2

I mean instead of 1 person and 1 bedroom at $1400

I could rent you a 3 bedroom 2 bath 1700 square foot deluxe house in phoenix for that same amount, and that includes a pool and a large master bedroom suite, stove, fridge, dishwasher, granite counters, A/C, 2 car garage, 7000 square foot lot. Fancy neighborhood, freeway handy, nearby shopping... and of course hot summers.

You can't have everything but I can't imagine somebody living in a 1br 1ba for that price. Ya gotta love L.A.

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by jamills21

I think most people would rather live in a smaller residence in Los Angeles in the city than in a mansion in the suburbs of the Mid-West. At least I would...

There ya go!

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by timtemtym

It seems like every new proposed anything suddenly is atop some major catastrophic godzilla-fault. I'm sure one day the 10.5 will hit, but at this point they have declared most of the DTLA to SaMo corridor one giant fault.

Not possible in this part of the world. Worst case might be 9 something. I doubt we'll ever see an 8.

[lewimaech235]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

I could rent you a 3 bedroom 2 bath 1700 square foot deluxe house in phoenix for that same amount, and that includes a pool and a large master bedroom suite, stove, fridge, dishwasher, granite counters, A/C, 2 car garage, 7000 square foot lot. Fancy neighborhood, freeway handy, nearby shopping... and of course hot summers.

You can't have everything but I can't imagine somebody living in a 1br 1ba for that price. Ya gotta love L.A.

Yeah, no kidding. It only seems like the people FROM California want to defend the place. I'm sorry, but I couldn't give one piece of my mind if I saw an ocean from my window, or not. I want a better house, not better accessibility to something that I don't even like.

[wushuliu]

Los Angeles. 'Walkable'. LOL.