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If your family lived in Beverly Hills, would you be equally upset that you couldn't afford to live there as well? Bottom line is this example of Beverly Hills has simply expanded a bit, fact is most of the country is "affordable" in this regards just the regions where the prices have skyrocketed quite a bit and "Beverly Hills" is not just Beverly Hills. I wouldn't call it entitled but it is something that people obviously put value on, living near family, so they also have to making a choice of what monetary value are they willing to pay in order to have that value? Sure it used to be the history of generations of Rockerfellers who lived at Martha's Vineyard and 3rd cousin twice removed Skip Rockerfeller doesn't make as much money as the rest of the clan, now it's generations of Joe Average who now are priced out of an area.
No you didn't greatly offend me, as there are a number of guarantees one can expect from this message board among them are people are self professed experts in all things technology and this becomes especially evident when there's a post about solar power, people will rip into bit coin or any type of "crypto" or other type, if there's talk of self driving cars there will be post bad things until you can pry they keyboard from my cold dead, anything Elon Musk does, and California bashing regardless of it is warranted or not.. that's a great past time here, and there are a few others as well. So yeah if I got offended every time someone said something bad about California I'd probably not come to this site anymore.
This is a vast over exaggeration. In the history of nuclear power in California there have been a grand total of 4 power plants, one of which was an extremely tiny one at 65 MW capacity which was scrapped because regulation made it unprofitable (oh and they lost a few fuel rods!), another which was just under 1 GW had a long history of shutting down frequently, steam releases (of the radioactive kind), and the last which was decommissioned was done so again after a lot of wear tear, amongst other things it was a 45 year old plant. The official decommission dates of 3 reactors was 1979, 2009, and 2013 respectively. The way people talk (not saying you specifically) about how California has "shut down all it's reactors" you'd think they had dozens throughout the state, which is simply not true. While yes there has a rather large anti-nuclear moment in the state, given the history of the 4 plants that it has had, I would say it's well earned. Sure you might argue "but 1960s technology" but the cold fact is the corporations that bankroll these power plants are going to do so not out of the kindness of their heart to provide for the people but because they want to make a profit, and they will try to maximize the profit however possible.
Again a bit of an over exaggeration. While yes solar power does peak a time when the peak usage isn't there, the usage is still greater than the production by a vast amount, and on summer days that daylight hour usage pushes back even more so. As it stands if California doubled it's solar/wind production (and that's not just roof top homes, that's the many gigawatts of farms out there) then we'd still not be able to keep up with usage at any time during the day. When solar is made it will be used, this is not a matter of converting all the power over to solar.
Which part of Texas? We have several major climate differences depending where you are at. I'd be surprised even areas like Sacramento if you could manage to find a decent 2500 sq ft home in a good area for 250K or less. Thats common for the suburbs outside of the major cities in Texas.
Homes in huge swaths of the US are cheap, and borrowing is also still cheap.
Yes spoken like a true Californian, who's talking about Californian houses, and then those who can afford the payments on Californian houses. I'm not saying this is a feasible plan across the whole country, because I absolutely agree with your premise, someone in a 200-250k area 35k is a harder pill to swallow.
Well you know what they say about sinking ships... as long as the rats leave first they great!
Like I said, rats leaving is good, having the first class passengers coming, better for everyone including taxable income, since someone making 100k+ a year tends to give more (tax) and taking less (spending of tax revenue) than someone making 30k a year.
The median (average) person in San Francisco can not afford to buy a home... at least in San Francisco. Although the avg price for a 1 bedroom apartment is more than the mortgage payment you showed. And my argument was about those who can afford a house