SO my question today is, where do all the normal people in LA live? Has it really taken me over three years only to learn that I can't afford to live in the city? Why is downtown only affordable for rich yuppies who want to live "artistically" or homeless people? Where is the middle ground? Why are there only tenements and luxury penthouses? Why is the 700-1200 range almost non-existent? WHY WHY WHY?
As useless as polls often are, a recent poll reports that 3/4 of young people on their own in California are fed up with the WHOLE STATE and are looking at other states to move to almost entirely due to housing costs.
This is what happens when I am sick all week- I get to lay in bed all day and obsess over the social injustices that drive me crazy. And be sad because my beautiful loft is slowly putting me in the poor house.
As useless as polls often are, a recent poll reports that 3/4 of young people on their own in California are fed up with the WHOLE STATE and are looking at other states to move to almost entirely due to housing costs.
This is what happens when I am sick all week- I get to lay in bed all day and obsess over the social injustices that drive me crazy. And be sad because my beautiful loft is slowly putting me in the poor house.
As far as the lack of affordable housing in L.A., it seems very similar to NYC in that there is no room for the middle class. You either have to be extremely wealthy or extremely poor/young to be content with your living arrangements. The weathly, needless to say, can get whatever they want, and cash-strapped young artists/students a) don't know what their missing; and b) sort of revel in their squalor.
That said, at least NYC has local satellite neighborhoods that are still affordable and commutable. It used to be Brooklyn, but that's pretty much blown up and been assimilated into the city's price scheme...now it's Jersey City, which is the Jersey equivalent of Brooklyn (one train stop across one river).
LA doesn't seem to have anything comparable, perhaps because it's so spread out.
Now let me go edit this for spelling 14 times...
[Edited on Mar 25, 2005 12:34PM]
[Edited on Mar 25, 2005 12:34PM]