Prices are even higher now in California to rent a place.
A co-worker and his wife moved from Thousand Oaks, Calif to Eugene, Oregon in 2021. Thousand Oaks is consider a nice area about 30 miles from Los Angeles. It is dry and hot in the summers with added brush fires....
Eugene is surrounded by forest and lakes and rivers.
His comment from Nov 2021:
“We were paying 2.3k to rent a 2 bedroom apt. Wasn’t nice by any means. Out here we’re paying 1.3k for a 3 bedroom house to rent.”
My brothers and a couple of their friends were paying $200 a month to rent a 4-bedroom house in Eugene when they were going to college there. Of course, that was a little over 50 years ago.