[quote=AN][quote=bearishgurl]Bakersfield doesn’t need a “job center” but does have many teaching, govm’t jobs and medical jobs. Like Fresno, it is primarily an agricultural hub. People who are highly trained in high tech jobs, for example, wouldn’t have any reason to move to Bakersfield.[/quote]
But your reason as to why Temecula is an exurb is its distance to job centers. Temecula have all the jobs you listed for Bakersfield and Fresno.[/quote]Yes it does (to a lesser degree because it is not a “county seat” like Bakersfield). And it doesn’t have its own CSU. But ….. there seems to be a LOT of tech and biotech workers who have moved out to TV with no hope of a good job within 35-45 miles of their homes. That’s sheer folly in my mind. It’s crazymaking because in most cases (primarily in SoCal) they could buy a (likely, smaller, older) home MUCH closer to work (w/no HOA/MR) for the same amount of money (or even less with all costs considered). Possibly even <10 miles away. But they choose not to.

For example, Santee is only 12-18 miles from several major SD job centers and has many homes which are 25+ years old with no HOA/MR (which could easily total an additional $150 to $750 month in housing expenses over and above PITI).

Scattered govm’t installations, police/fire stations, schools, universities and medical facilities found in every county in CA (urban to rural) aren’t “job centers.” Their jobs are needed to serve the population of that county or region. Many smaller cities in CA (even with <20K pop) have ALL of these types of jobs.

High tech and biotech workers (who typically work in "job centers" which have these types of companies) don't move to Bakersfield or Fresno because they have no reason to. They're not the types of cities that attract these workers because the counties they are situated in are self-contained and somewhat isolated unto themselves. For example, at 3+ hrs one way, we aren't going to see too many daily morning commuters from Fresno to Oakland :=0