Posted on 11/10/2023 12:40:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
The largely working class city of Salinas, California, is the seventh most expensive U.S. city to live in, according to a new U.S. News & World Report list.
The list places Salinas just behind San Francisco, which sits in sixth place, and ahead of New York City, ranked 11th.
The U.S. News & World Report list ranked the cities by comparing “how comfortably the average resident of each metro area can afford to live within their means.” The calculation involves weighing income against housing costs for renters and homeowners.
While the actual cost of living in Salinas may be significantly lower than in San Francisco, the gulfs between average annual income, median home price and median monthly rent are comparable. The median home in Salinas costs $925,458, which dwarfs the city’s average salary of $56,350. In San Francisco, meanwhile, the median home costs $1,122,946 and the average salary is $86,590, according to the report.
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You are correct to question the article.
These listings show that it is a lie:
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Salinas_CA
If I hit the lottery, I’d be living a little south of Monterey. One of the most beautiful, perfectly climed areas in the country. The area hasn’t been $hitholed yet either.
Yes, it is, especially given the fact that it's a gang infested city.
Salinas is nothing but fields. This is statistics at work.
2 tamales and a cerveza how much can that cost?
you and clint eastwood
Big Sur? Carmel?
Big Sur. I could go the full bohemian lifestyle with enough California dope, I guess.
I think Janis was up near there when she let Bobby slip away. IIRC.
Yes. Someone has screwed with these stats.
Yep, Carmel. Lots of rich looking residents and stores in the area. However, not far from there inland are poor people. Contrast is big. My wife and I drove up the coast highway in my sports car from Santa Barbara one time and pulled into a 2-pump gas station on the highway around Carmel. A young gal attendant looked like she would fit in the "Beverly Hillbillies" cast, except for missing teeth. "Gosh, you got a purty car there Mister!". Poor workers. Wife and I did a double take, before driving into Carmel for dinner.
If you go farther inland you see poor farmworkers and illegals, but Carmel is gorgeous.
Salinas is a huge strawberry producing area. Tremendous number of poor farm workers, both legal and illegal.
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