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Negative connotations aside of your post, you make our point, you need to down-grade your material lifestyle or make $200K plus to be in the good parts of Cali. And unless someone left you a house, $100K in Cali is lower middle income existence and it just gets worse as you go down from there. And I’m OC/LA where the housing and expense issue is even more pronounced than SD.
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I need to take issue with this. 100k is NOT lower middle income. Even in pricey Southern CA.
Median per capita income in San Diego county: $30,955
Median household income in San Diego county:
$63,857
Median per capita income in Orange county: $34,416
Median household income in Orange county:
$75,762
I think many of us lose sight that we are better off than the median. That our incomes actually put is in the top quintile… even in expensive places like Southern CA.
For every engineer, there’s a gardener, a cashier, a starbucks barista etc.
Start being grateful for that $100k or $200k, and accept that you are NOT middle or lower middle class.
Sure $100k doesn’t go as far in southern CA – but a lot of people survive on a lot less. In fact 50% of households survive on less than $63-64k.
