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$1,040 is cheap for a mortgage in a major metro, you must have bought early. I pay more than that in rent for an 800 sq ft one bedroom apartment, so consider yourself lucky. You don't have it so bad
Yes I bought in 02 for 140,000. There now selling for 320,000. I'm very fortunate I bought long ago. There's no way i could buy my small condo today
Calif. gas tax just went up a additional 12 cents a gallon and car registration went up $25 to $175 depending on car value. Under the guise of fixing the roads but everyone knows its going to public employee unions. This hits poor people the hardest naturally.
Calif. gas tax just went up a additional 12 cents a gallon and car registration went up $25 to $175 depending on car value. Under the guise of fixing the roads but everyone knows its going to public employee unions. This hits poor people the hardest naturally.
I just heard something about a petition going around related to the repeal of the gas tax. Haven't checked it out. Listen to KFI-AM 640 the John and Ken show. They stay on top of this stuff.
How can you have a room mate in a studio??? My friend lives in a so cal studio apt and pays 1300, a month and that's cheap. My other friend lives in a one bdrm and pays 1800 a month. Even the single people are Screwed here. My monthly expenses are
Mortgage 1040.00
HOA 320.00
Electricity 30.00 to 60.00
Gas same as electricity
Trash/water 50.00
Cell 85.00
Cable/wifi 210.00
Gas 3.10 a gallon
Car ins 85.00
Not including credit cards and entertainment
I'm a native and I can't afford to live here much longer
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That is the reason I moved away in 1999. I knew I wouldn't be able to afford a home. Now that is happening here in Colorado so I truly feel bad for the younger generations trying to buy into the housing market.
there are lots of reasons to bash California and its not just the backwards politics they have. Can they hurry up and leave the Union please???
Trust me, the Union will hurt a lot more if CA leaves than if NC does. When it comes to bringing in the GDP $ to the US economy, California owns you like a little *****.
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High taxes and high cost of living make for a huge number of poor people.
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California has been the poorest state in the nation under the vastly more sophisticated “supplemental” poverty measure since the alternative statistic was created (Mississippi is poorest under the old measure). It’s not even really that close: Florida has the second highest rate, at 18.7 percent.
Another day on C-D Politics another thread bashing California for no reason. They ought to make a subforum so people can complain about it there.
The problem with that idea, is that few of the more intelligent people who come here, would bother with it. The California-bashing trolls go where they can get the most negative reactions to their nonsense.
One nice thing about California, is the great fresh produce you can buy, for much of the year. Small farmers or those who buy fruit and vegetables from them, bring in truckloads and park at gas stations or vacant lots and sell it much cheaper (and fresher) than you get at stores. And so many people have citrus and avocado trees in their yards. Almost everyone would know someone, who had such an abundance of it, that they were glad to give it away.
Another day on C-D Politics another thread bashing California for no reason. They ought to make a subforum so people can complain about it there.
It's not bashing anyplace. The topic of this board is "politics and other controversies". I think showing that CA has the highest percent of poor people is a controversy and worthy of discussion. If you don't, then move on.
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