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.
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!
If you don’t mind asthma and lung cancer there’s plenty of cheap homes around the Salton Sea!
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.
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.
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.
Population boom has been going on east of LA County for decades Temecula, Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, Riverside, Chino Hills, north fontana. The news may be san bernardino. This is just a new wave.
Buy beach front on the Salton Sea. It is bound to go to the moon!