# Why I'm f@wked in CA **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 18, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-im-f-wked-in-ca/196934 "2008-04-18T13:56:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![tjZ28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@tjZ28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tjZ28)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-im-f-wked-in-ca/196934/4 "2008-04-18T14:38:06Z")
> [@chess?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/chess/36013/2): > > Yep…you want to live where the ballers do, you have to pay the price. My brother is kind of but not as bad in the same situation. He lives in FL and a decent home is $300+K …he makes about $100K and there is no way he can afford a home. Now he can move away from his job and drive futher and probably swing it…but he can’t be baller right near the beach. So he rents for now. > > Can you move to a cheaper part of CA and still drive to your job? If he makes $100k he should be able to buy a $300k house FWIW. Unless that is, he has a lot of extra expenses (multiple car payments, hookers, blow…). The town I lived in until about a year ago (Gilroy) is a 45 minute drive to my office w/o traffic. Peak commute hours, it can easily double. Housing is cheaper there, I could probably get a nice place in the 400s. To get into the 300s I’d have to be about 2hours away from my office w/o traffic, but out some of the worst rush-hour freeways in the world. I had thought about buying something out that way, in a particular a town where they’re about to build a giant multi-function motorsports complex in the next few years. But I’m not commuting 4+ hours/day. So I figured I’d crash at my Parents’ place mon-thurs nights. But do I really want to get into a mortgage for a place I’ll be at just on the weekends in the Central Valley (hot, land-locked, nothing to do, nowhere to go)? Maybe, we’ll see. -TJ --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-im-f-wked-in-ca/196934)._