[quote=earlyretirement]…Yep. Me too. Goes the same lines of the job market here in San Diego being poor compared to other areas. I don’t think it’s so much a case of “willing” to commute an hour as it is “forced” to commute that distance.[/quote]
ER, you must bear in mind that no one … and I mean NO ONE is FORCED to commute for work from one coastal county in SoCal to another, unless they CHOOSE TO do so! As soon as an adversely affected commuting family feels they are no longer “underwater,” they should immediately list their home in attempt to “get out from under” and move to a more convenient location for themselves.
In the current market, there is no excuse for this travesty unless the family is so underwater that they should have handed in the keys to their house in long ago, IMHO.
The reality is that all workers in CA coastal counties can live reasonably close to their employer if they wish to do so. They are CHOOSING to do otherwise.
The issue of CHOICE is the “elephant in the room,” here.
