I know personally so many people who have left to go to Texas and Florida (I am so jealous.. just biding my time til I can work remote 100% of the time) yet California housing is so astonishingly insanely overpriced still. Like.. who in the fuck is buying these 1 million dollar piles of shit houses for 2 million? any decent 2 bed/2 bath apartment is $3000+ and a house with a yard thats decent is around 5k/month. If this was just inflation times I wouldnt be surprised since Cali has always been pricey so accounting for inflation is going to jack that way up, but knowing how many people are leaving here, WHO IS PAYING THAT? all the kids who moved here to bEcOmE a sTaR have moved back home during the pandemic, locals leaving en masse, people working remote for a Cali company and able to leave to work remote full time. I just.. dont get it.
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Shit was skyhigh here before covid. There's several of the biggest megalopolis markets in the world in CA alone, you do the math.
before covid made sense and i never questioned why shit was so high - though before was nothing compared to now. everyone wanted to move to LA to "make it", good weather, etcetc. but SINCE covid is what I dont get - people leaving en masse, people being FORCEd to leave bc they cant work/make enough here, etc.
Kind of makes less sense if you realize people aren't trying to make it in Hollywood nearly as much in the age of social media. They're trying to make it using the smart phone in their pocket or streaming on a PC.