So our California department of finance publishes some interesting stats:

Current 2010 Census population shows only 4.2 million people age 65+

California government stats also show legal immigration to be 5.58 million from 1984 to 2010.

Nearly half immigrated to Los Angeles county, 2.044 million.

Over the last ten years, we’ve seen a marked increase in the population under 18. From 25% to 27.5%.

http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/state_census_data_center/census_2010/documents/2010Census_DemoProfile1.xls

http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/reports/documents/Immigration_1984-2010.xls

On a side note, I don’t believe any place else in the US refers to California housing as cheap, except maybe people in Romney’s income range.

While homes in podunk Cali seem cheap to us, to people living in elsewhere, they’re still more expensive compartively with cheaper alternative locally in podunk-USA.