What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs today
we're gonna look at the Golden State California California these days has
become a comeback for middle America's argument on why liberals are bad
California is one of the richest states in the nation not just economically
speaking either it's rich in natural beauty to the weather the beaches the
mountains and all that cosmetic surgery makes California beautiful California is
a highly desirable place to live and that's a fact and it shows by the cost
of living and housing prices San Francisco now outranks Manhattan as the
most expensive real estate market in the US I read one thing on a real estate
site that said any other city in America if you make 500,000 a year you have your
choice of almost any house and in almost any neighborhood that's not the case in
Manhattan or San Francisco today's list is not about San Francisco it's about
places in California that still might be considered a cheap place to live at
least for California standards now quick heads up if I went just by the numbers
all those places would be in the middle of Death Valley because it is dirt cheap
to live out there you just have to get used to dust dirt and sweating a lot and
that wouldn't make for a very exciting list it would make for a very depressing
list actually so I'll spread it out with places that I found that are nice and
inexpensive compared to the rest of California now they're not going to be
perfect if it's a really cheap town in California there's a reason for it it's
not the greatest town but some of these are okay now I'm sure there's a bunch
more that we missed and we would love to hear about it in the comment section
below so feel free to tell us about them all right
in no particular order let's find out where you can live in California without
selling the kidney number 1029 Palms California
29 palms was named after the palm trees found there in 1852 by Colonel Henry
Washington he decided to do a little surveying in the area and found some
trees a whole lot of dirt and rocks the town of almost twenty six thousand
residents sits just outside the Joshua Tree National Park they also have the
Marine Corps Air Group combat center at 29 palms or just 29 palms I've trained
there with the Marines I was in the Army the Marines we trained
together sometimes I swear I'd never go back there and so far I'm holding up
that promise to myself please horrible train the cost of living in Twentynine
Palms is 33 percent lower than California's average that's pretty good
that's a low number and it's seven percent lower than the national average
29 palms housing is 25 percent lower than the national average you can get a
house here for as low as 150,000 you probably won't want that house but it's
there for you if you want to get a better house probably the nicer ones
start off around 250 and go all the way up to 350 maybe most of them don't have
lawns because this place is desert and dry but you might be lucky if you have a
bush or two number nine Blythe California Blythe California is what you
get when you combine desert and retirees on a fixed income the good news is it's
cheap to live here the city was incorporated on July 21st 1916 the
population was 20 thousand at the 2010 census and they think it's dropped a
little bit they're not really sure how much we'll find out in a year so when
this census is over Blythe is in the Colorado desert which is part of the
Sonora Desert yes it is in California and it's called the Colorado desert the
Colorado River flows just east of town so it sort of makes sense blights
housing is 30 percent lower than the national average and the cost of living
is 34 percent lower than California's average and the cost of living is 8
percent lower than the national average in Blyth you can get a home you don't
want for under $150,000 and get one you probably do want for $225,000 they have
a bunch of mobile homes here and what's weird is they have a bunch of homes that
aren't mobile homes but they look like they are it's like they design them that
way it's weird number 8
chef Jill in California Chowchilla is in between Merced and Fresno Merced is OK
Fresno sucks Chow chilla also has the valley state prison real close and I
think people would rather mention that they live near a prison than near Fresno
Chowchilla isn't terrible place it gets hot and it has some crime it's
not as bad as the cost living might make you think Chile's crime rate is actually
36 percent lower than California's average the cost living in Chowchilla is
30 cent lower than California's average and
2% lower than the national average the real estate prices are about 63% lower
here than the California average houses you don't want here are around 160,000
and the ones you do want are somewhere close to 300,000 a little bit over
probably but in general this is a really good place to live if you just get past
that Heat number seven gusty in California Gus teen is a little town
between San Jose and Merced if you're looking at a map
Gus teen has about 6,000 residents and it's the type of place where you could
drive up and down the interstate five for years and not realize that this
towns just a few miles off the interstate I watched a video about how
during the copa de 19 lockdown like March and April the police started
delivering food and groceries for people because the town was so small they
didn't have anything like GrubHub that's great they were just dropping people's
stuff off especially the elderly so they wouldn't have to leave the house during
the lockdown it's a nice small town and I'm kind of shocked that it's so cheap
to live here it is kind of out of the way so that plays into it but still the
cost living in Gus teen is 31 percent lower than California's average in 3%
lower than the national average the housing and Gus teen is 15 percent lower
than the national average now they have a bunch trailers here and they go for
next to nothing like eighteen to twenty thousand for one they also have a whole
lot of vacant lots that are for sale for under a hundred thousand dollars but the
nicer homes start off at about 290 277 I saw a couple like that but they go all
the way up to 425 thousand for a really nice house here number six
fireball California fireball got its name from a guy who ran a ferry that
crossed the San Joaquin River back in the day the thing is that's not even how
you spell his name so many people misspelled his name it kind of stuck
it's actually f IE RBA ugh not fi r e ba ugh so mixed up two letters and it kind
of stuck this is a farming community for the most part if you need any proof for
that and the surrounding farmland didn't convince you every year they have a
cantaloupe roundup festival yeah cantaloupe roundup festival the
cost of living in fireball is 35% lower than California's average and a
percent lower than the national average fire boss housing is actually 32 percent
lower than the national average most all of the houses go for in between 200 and
250 thousand now they have a few that are higher but all the ones that are for
sale right now are right around that area 200 to 250 thousand number five El
Centro California down near the Mexico border east of San Diego yob El Centro
if you like warm weather El Centro has plenty of it for you this is a farming
city it was a farming town but now the metro area has over 160,000 residents so
it's a farming city this city is right in the middle of miles and miles of
farmland and desert they actually have a great ATV area called Imperial dudes but
actually I guess the real name is Algodones dunes but I've always called
it Imperial dunes I don't know that's what everyone I knew called it anyway
this place draws thousands of visitors every single year mainly for off-road
driving anything I've seen everything out there I've actually also seen a few
photo shoots with models and stuff like that's been pretty cool it's a neat
landscape the cost living in El Centro is 30 percent lower than California's
average and 2 percent lower than the national average the housing is 14
percent lower than the national average and it's a great place to live for the
most part they do have some crime but not terrible I mean if you watch the
news you think anything near the Mexico border is just gonna be some kind of you
know war zone now it's not just like El Paso they have some crime but it's not
crazy like you'd think it should be if you watch the news you can get homes
here in the 200,000 area but those aren't really the ones you want you want
to be looking 250 to 350 and they go all the way up but that's a nice spot 250 to
350 thousand dollars will get you a good home in El Centro number 4
Atwater California the railroad reached Atwater in the 1870s and the town grew
from there that the first post office opened up in 1880 and Atwater was
incorporated in 1922 they named the town after marshal de Atwater a local wheat
farmer whose land they used to actually put the railroad station in come nice
thing give up little land they named the town after you this is a nice town it's
the other side of Merced from Fresno so that's good but it's closer to Modesto
hmm that's a tough one I'm not sure which one sucks worse Fresno or Modesto
I'm gonna have to think about that one anyway the cost living in Atwater is 30%
lower than California's average and 2% lower than the national average the
housing is 11% lower than the national average so this is a good place to live
they do have some crime it's 59 percent higher than the national average but
that's nothing I mean take a look at Detroit I think they're like three
hundred and forty percent higher than the national average so 59 percent is
not bad you can get a house here that's a decent good shape that's been
well-maintained for under two hundred fifty thousand two hundred twenty two
two hundred fifty thousand that'll get you a nice small house you get up
towards a three hundred area and it starts getting a lot better but yeah
you're looking between 250 and 350 that's a nice price for a town like this
number three Rosamond California Rosamond is about an
hour outside of Los Angeles just north of Lancaster the our thing is
technically correct but unless you live on the outskirts of LA you should know
it takes about an hour to get out of LA most days the first local industries
were mining and cattle during the 1890s gold was discovered and like everywhere
else when people start pulling money out of the ground more people show up and
the community was born the gold dried up years later but people stayed because of
nearby Murdoch field which later was renamed to Edwards Air Force Base if you
don't mind desert life this might be worth a look the cost of living in
Rosamond is twenty four percent lower than california's average and it's about
even with the national average the housing is 11 percent lower than the
national average which is good in Rosemont there's plenty of empty lots
for around ten thousand I mean they have a whole bunch of them you could buy a
plot of land and put whatever you want on them they have some nice mobile home
parks they've got some rundown ones too but they have some nice ones where you
can get a place for you know around fifty thousand or under fifty thousand a
house here starts around two hundred twenty thousand and they go all the way
up I actually saw one for seven hundred thousand it was nice but my opinion it
was far too expensive for Rosamund number two all Taurus California do you
want to get away do you hate everyone you know are you tired of having friends
and family wanting to visit if so you should probably move to this little town
in the northeastern corner of cow fornia this is one of those towns that
probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the train back in the day I'm not
even sure if the train goes through here anymore but it used to this is a
beautiful little town that would probably be far more expensive if it
wasn't so remote this place is it's kind of away from everything the cost of
living in Alturas is 34 percent lower than California's average and it's about
eight percent lower than the national average all tourist housing is actually
41 percent lower than the national average now that's one thing if it's
lower than California's but it's lower than the national average by 41 percent
that's pretty good you could buy a livable home for under $100,000 it might
need a little work but they look nice a really nice house starts at about
220,000 and they have nice lots of land for under ten thousand I did watch one
guy's video and he said if you have 18 T cell service plan on changing the
Verizon if you move here because the cell service for 18 t there sucked
that's just what he said I don't know that for sure and number one Susanville
California about two hours south of all tourists near Eagle Lake you have
Susanville like Alturas if you want to cut down on unannounced visitors move
here things move a little slow in Susanville here's a picture of downtown
in 1975 and here it is again in 2005 the totally kidding mine anyway the cost of
living in Susanville is 30% lower than the California average and about two
percent lower than the national average housing here is 15 percent lower than
the national average this a great place to live it's really nice they have
houses for sale on Eagle Lake or just a short walk off the lake from 50 to
$150,000 a nice house in town will run you about a hundred and fifty thousand
to two hundred and twenty thousand this is a nice place to live it's only about
an hour and a half from Reno Nevada so I mean it's a quiet town you got some
entertainment in Reno just an hour and a half away not bad
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