Politics It's hard to live on $174k in San Diego

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  1. riverman

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    He is not narrow minded!

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    Where are you going to find a decent home in a safe neighborhood for $300k in Portland?
     
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    I mean, you can be cheap as fuck and save money with $175k, but like I said, for a married couple, living in San Diego, unless they are living 15 miles inland, you are pretty much living a middle class lifestyle.
     
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    He is right about housing prices in San Diego however. A comparable home in La Mesa (which is as close to San Diego as Beaverton is to Portland) will be in the $600K range.
     
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    The thing is.... there are nice neighborhoods in Beaverton.... and there are shitty neighborhoods in Beaverton. Technically he linked a house in Aloha, and not in a particularly nice part of Aloha. I'm not familiar with San Diego at all, but he keeps linking houses that aren't in very nice neighborhoods, which was part of his stipulation. Decent house in a nice neighborhood in Portland. So far he has yet to find one.
     
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    I actually knew that. When we moved to Portland we rented a house in Aloha until we found a house we bought (in the Bethany area) - so the La Mesa reference I gave you is (imho) appropriate.

    Housing prices in San Diego are pretty absurd. I would not say that they are 2 times higher, but probably 60-70% higher for comparable homes / areas.

    To my mind, Carlsbad is what I would think of as the Beaverton of San Diego - Suburban higher middle-class kind of city. Median home price in Carlsbad is 850K vs 400K for Beaverton, for example. This is tilted higher however because Carlsbad is on the beach, so there are some very expensive areas there. I still think that the 60-70% higher estimate is the correct one.
     
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    What's the State sales tax in Oregon? I'm pretty sure it's less than in San Diego.
     
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    Hey, that's funny, I use to live in Aloha and now I live in a nicer part of Lake Oswego. Even from where you're at you can almost see the smile on my face. Trump's been good for me, a total disaster for the country but good for me.

    So, why am I so adamantly against Trump? Simple, I love my country and I care about people. Those are pretty much the only requirements for hating that fuck.
     
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    Yeah, I guess it is hard to live on $75,000 in Portland.
     
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    Ha! No place it the best place year around.

    So Cal and especial near San Diego, is wonderful and then especially near the Sea, in the winter. However, I have my boat
    just North of Portland in the Columbia river right now, because it is a wonderful place to be. In the spring, I think I will find Sitka AK a wonderful place, so that is where I will be.

    Duncan Hunter on the other hand, likable fellow perhaps is dumber than a box of rocks. Geez! How can the fool plead innocent and then complain about the cost of living in San Diego? Bye Bye Hunter!
     
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    I wouldn't say it's hard to live in Portland on $75k but you probably aren't going to be able to own a home, at least not a nice one. You would be able to afford a starter home if you drove outside of that metro area but even Woodburn's median home price (just over the Washington/Marion County line) is over $250k. I would consider that a big mortgage for a family making $75k.

    Even places that are kind of part of PDX but are way out there (like Corbett and Hood River) have median home prices around $450 - $500k.
     
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    It's even worse, he's blaming his wife.
     
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    If it was a combined household income.... it would be hard.

    Just to give you some perspective, a family of 4 with a household income of $75k is considered low income by the Energy Trust of Oregon.
     

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