[quote=spdrun]Is SoCal really that different from the Northeast, where my family and I have both had good luck with tenants? Some messy people, but no non-payers.[/quote]
It’s hard to generalize, but I suspect yes – although it may depend on what part of the northeast you’re talking about.
I don’t want to be overly dramatic, but when you couple the extreme materialism with very limited economic opportunity of SoCal you get interesting results.
The population of SoCal is probably 24 million or so, and it can be very tough to make it in SoCal because of that fact; but at the same time there is considerable conspicuous and concentrated wealth.
Yes, materialism is everywhere as is entitlement, but I think it may be more pronounced in SoCal than in most other areas.
To much California Dreamin going on, migrants to California were sold on a marketing gimmick.
