You sound exactly like one of CA's thousands of realtors who tell everyone what a great deal on housing and the American dream they can get in CA, just 100 miles from the coast? Right? ☺ Palmdale anyone? ....lol
Ya see that's where all the low income blacks, whites and Hispanics were forced to go to, about 100 miles from the coast in the desert, in S. CA. Most of them hate life shortly there after, or find themselves in divorce and or turn into drunks commuting 4 hours per day. Ya see, that is where they pigeonholed all the lower income people.
In fact, about 100 miles from the S.CA coast, a Sheriff in the Victorville area said there is so much crime out there nowadays, he's never seen seen anything like it.☺
So you pick the worst place 100 miles inland to make your point Victorville, California.
Murrieta, California is one of best to make my point. The local area still has older homes available with a low crime rate. If you look hard you can still find homes with land for less than 350K.
Renting is a fools game. Avoid it at all costs.
There are two types of people in this world, those that are slaves and those that are masters. The difference between them is land