<story><title>Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-safe-parking-20171224-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll be facing this soon as well, at least they&amp;#x27;ve got RV&amp;#x27;s. After getting back from my third open house for the week, with double digit atendees, I think the bay area just isn&amp;#x27;t for me. A perfect credit score and a job making double the median wage is not enough to land a 1 bedroom apartment apparently. I&amp;#x27;ll probably end up sleeping on someones couch for a few months to finish my work contract, and get out of this hellscape for somewhere people can actually live.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text>I grew up in California.  It&amp;#x27;s a beautiful place.  But I fail to understand the point of living or doing business there in 2017.  High state taxes, high crime rates (that will only get higher as more people are driven to homelessness), impossible housing market, etc.  I now live in Nevada.  I can easily drive or fly to California for vacation if I want, housing is relatively reasonable, and there are no state taxes.&lt;p&gt;If you are doing consulting that can be done remotely, live in Nevada and fly to California when you need.  Flights are cheap and plentiful.  If you&amp;#x27;re running or starting a web-based business, then you can run that from pretty much anywhere, and you&amp;#x27;d be insane to do it in California with such a punitive tax system.  There&amp;#x27;s just no point to living in California these days.</text></comment>
<story><title>Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-safe-parking-20171224-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll be facing this soon as well, at least they&amp;#x27;ve got RV&amp;#x27;s. After getting back from my third open house for the week, with double digit atendees, I think the bay area just isn&amp;#x27;t for me. A perfect credit score and a job making double the median wage is not enough to land a 1 bedroom apartment apparently. I&amp;#x27;ll probably end up sleeping on someones couch for a few months to finish my work contract, and get out of this hellscape for somewhere people can actually live.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justherefortart</author><text>Move outside the city. I lived in Pacifica. Pretty much anything along BART is easy to get into the city. I parked at Colma where fortunately the dead don&amp;#x27;t drive :-)&lt;p&gt;Pacifica was awesome because you&amp;#x27;re just a hill from the hustle and bustle but it felt like a detached town. So many nice people there. Hwy 1 is annoying at rush hour (or most hours) but it was a really nice community.</text></comment>