Posted on 05/13/2024 2:46:54 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Word has been out about the Inland Empire region of California for a while now. The large, multi-county area east of Los Angeles and Orange County has seen a ton of new investment and overall growth in recent years, spurred on partly by coastal renters moving east to buy standalone homes in one of Southern California’s last “affordable” regions.
Now, new population numbers released by the state further back up all that talk. Last week, the California Department of Finance released its annual report on population and housing estimates statewide, and the data shows that the Inland Empire is very much booming. Menifee, in Riverside County, was one of the state’s largest population growth centers statewide, adding more than 2,000 people just last year. Victorville in San Bernardino County wasn’t far behind, pushing its total population to nearly 140,000 people in 2023. The high desert city is larger than Santa Clara and Berkeley and sits just behind Pasadena and Orange.
The Inland Empire’s Press-Enterprise went even deeper on some of the localized numbers. Riverside and San Bernardino counties collectively added more than 22,000 people last year, though the report does not say how many of those people moved from elsewhere in California, came from out of state, or were new births. Riverside and San Bernardino counties also now count 14 total cities with populations north of 100,000 people. All of that growth has led to a buying spree for some big-time real estate investors and has caused a ton of fluctuation in the median home price across the area.
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Been happening for a long time late 90’s I know lots of people who live in the inland empire and take the metro-link train intobla and oc to work.
San Berdo, where in the last 25 years, half of south central LA relocated to.
Been going on for decades....No where else to build on the LA coastal plain...So they head east bound. The smart ones keep going east until they cross the river...
I think it’s probably Blackrock building homes for the new voters recently given refugee status at the Mexican border. California is proposing to give them the right to vote, and has already given them the right to own guns.
“”California is proposing to give them the right to vote””
Kalifornia passed the DMV Motor Voter ordinance many moons ago. If you interact with the DMV for any purpose (license ID, registration) you are automatically signed up on the voter rolls. A few years after the Motor Voter began, illegal trespassers were allowed to obtain a ‘legal’ Kalifornia driver’s license. No discussion of voter registration, but you know the DemocRATS are signing them up in droves. El RushBo stated that many of the Kalifornia 2016 votes for Hillary were no doubt illegals.
Eticucaloma ping
To the rest of the country, the Riverside-San Bernardino area is like an armpit after a work-out. Hot, smelly and wet. No-one really wants to live there and its a good 1-1/2 to 2 hour commute, one way, to get to downtown. This is not a sign of recovery. It’s where people who used to be able to afford a home near LA have to move because the real estate is so out of reach anywhere nearby. And they’ll pay in many ways not related to their salary - 1/2 your worday spent on the freeway, higher crime, dirty and gang infested neighborhoods, and the friggin’ heat!
Today, the place where I stood is in the middle of a housing tract and is about a mile from Bass Pro Shops and the Mainstreet Rancho Cucamonga Mall. The eucalyptus trees that lined Etiwanda Ave. are still there, but otherwise, it's a totally different galaxy.
If you don’t mind asthma and lung cancer there’s plenty of cheap homes around the Salton Sea!
Just so. “Motor voter” law mean illegals get to vote. That’s why it was passed in the first place.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled A population boom is reshaping this 'affordable' California region, Ronaldus Magnus III wrote: “”California is proposing to give them the right to vote””
Kalifornia passed the DMV Motor Voter ordinance many moons ago. If you interact with the DMV for any purpose (license ID, registration) you are automatically signed up on the voter rolls. A few years after the Motor Voter began, illegal trespassers were allowed to obtain a ‘legal’ Kalifornia driver’s license. No discussion of voter registration, but you know the DemocRATS are signing them up in droves. El RushBo stated that many of the Kalifornia 2016 votes for Hillary were no doubt illegals.
According to a county person, the counties work hard to put every illegal on Medi-Cal (i.e., California's version of Medicaid). They offer regular annual childhood exams and other regular doctor services - not just emergency needs. Who wouldn't go to Kalifornia if you knew you could give your family free medical care.
Illegals in the program were under a 'Dreamers' program, but when that program was rescinded, they removed the classification from the illegal's records.
Once an illegal was signed up with Medi-Cal, they automatically received a voter's registration. It was mandated that ALL signees of Medicaid receive a voter's registration, illegal or not. I asked 'why? If they are not allowed to vote - won't that confuse them? And he said that they relied on the recipient to know whether or not they vote and therefore whether or not to register???
There will be no “affordable” regions of California much longer. Governor Newsom - the worst governor in the nation - and the worst state legislature in the nation continue to drive costs in California through the roof.
A friend of mine relocated from Menifee. She misses it.
The Inland Empire is what LA folks sometimes derisively call “the 909” (the area code there). It’s working class, more conservative-leaning in comparison to the rest of LA. I think it’s lower crime. I lived for about a year in Palm Springs and spent some time in this area. Much less pretentious than the ritzy parts of LA (greater metro). Much less crime than in the other parts of LA.
We just call it the desert, LOL. SB County is also home to most of the 1% MC’s. Lots of Vagos, who also seem to be expanding their territory westward towards LA recently
On our way to the Sierras we would drive through San Bernardino. The drive back was more depressing because the decent into the city, you could see yourself entering into the smog layer. It rested over the city like a giant bowl with no where for it to go. We always said how we would never live there and couldn’t wait to get through it.
Well I moved out to a further Southern California suburb called Las Vegas (No state income taxes)
I understand a LOT of Section 8 housing is going in in that area - b/c the land is far cheaper - and moving Section 8 out to the desert frees up far more valuable coastal land for high-end development.
Not great weather out there - well, it is a desert area - very hot and dry in the summer months, cold during the winter - and the wind is ALWAYS blowing, either hot or cold wind.
Illegals are already able to vote, i.e., motor-voter laws - illegals can get legal driver’s licenses in California - and are automatically registered to vote.
No ID necessary.
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