90k a year is hard times in San Diego California

[Sage Truthbearer]

I visited the Pacific Northwest for the first time last year (PDX, Seatle, Vancouver) and it was great, but it's hard to imagine a younger and middle class person like me being able to live there. I was just reading about how the average detached home in Vancouver has sky-rocketed to $2.23-million over the last couple years. My city may be desert shithole but at least it has a good economy and affordable housing.

[Xaanka]

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I visited the Pacific Northwest for the first time last year (PDX, Seatle, Vancouver) and it was great, but it's hard to imagine a younger and middle class person like me being able to live there. I was just reading about how the average detached home in Vancouver has sky-rocketed to $2.23-million over the last couple years. My city may be desert shithole but at least it has a good economy and affordable housing.

i have a few friends around my age on section 8 working construction or landscaping type stuff for cash under the table. unless you're a young it professional there aren't many other opportunities in the nw that pay enough to make up for the living expenses that continue bubbling with no end in sight. my friend's $0/mo section 8 house is legitimately nicer than my $2600/mo townhome. it's pretty obvious how fucked things are to me since i'm an avid hiker and i've seen the more accessible trailheads slowly grow from maybe 1 or 2 thru hikers camping to these 200-600 people tent cities full of normal middle class seattle natives who aren't drug addicts. white bread semi rural suburban city next to me has a median income of $97k and there's a tent city with about 500 people living in it + a few other small ones. thats not even the city lol.

lots of people just buying a discover pass, state forest pass and living out of campers/trailers too. costs them basically nothing as long as they move every couple days. i know some people at microsoft making $150-250k a year living this way, renting and property values are such a joke here.