Letters to the Editor
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Well no wonder you want to move -- you live in Orange Freaking County
Orange County is the unwashed armpit of Southern California. Especially Irvine, Anaheim and Fullerton.
Try the Bay Area. Or San Diego. Or one of the nice coastal cities between Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz. Sure, you can't afford a house there! But you get to live near where dirt meets water!
Actually I had a dream about moving inland last night. It was more of a nightmare, but that's only because I was moving back to my old town, a place where I'd built many of my worst and most painful memories.
Just keep in mind that if you move, you'll be exchanging one kind of problem for another. You'll be out of earthquake zone and into tornado zone. You'll be away from misinformed hippies and coastal meth heads, but nearer to uneducated racists and...inland meth heads.
That said, you will be able to afford a house -- especially if you built your nest egg while in California. Salaries are lower in many inland states.