Where to live in California?

I will be a college student living on my own in California.
Where are some good places to live in California?

Looking for:
Community college
Entry level min wage work
Cheap housing
Walking distance(don't need a car to get around)

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California is overpriced. Taxes are ridiculous here. We subsidize illegals here and it makes the citizens suffer. Your best bet is stay away and save money. I have a friend who is wealthy in Las Vegas, they thought that they could make it out here. Surprise. They had to move back.

You can't have all of these, it's California. Housing will always be expensive and public transit will never be adequate for our massive urban sprawl. It's there, but it's shitty and inconvenient.
That said, pretty much any town is going to have a community college nearby unless you're out in the boonies. I had a few friends who've had luck up in the Sacremento area or around Stockton. But like I said, some downsides will always come with living in this state.

I almost have to be in California. I'm young a broke and dependent.
Do you know of any states near(bordering) California that are easier to live in?

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Its super expensive. I live in the "cheap" part of the state and gas is still $3.30 for basic. Rent is around $950-1500 month for anything ok. But if you must live here I would look at anywhere between Merced and Bakersfield areas. Rent is what I said above and the csu in stanislaus and fresno county is good. There is also uc Merced and if you want I believe one in Bakersfield. Travel from this area anywhere in the state is no farther than 4 hours in any given direction.

Taxes are high but at least you can get healthcare as a poor person and shit. The bigger problem is housing, chiefly fatcat landlords converting all their property into Air BnB style hotels and zero pressure for the state government to enact any kind of sensible rent control or designated long-term housing. It's straight up impossible to live in San Francisco these days unless you're extraordinarily wealthy. That's where the problem is at its worst but it's only going to spread from here.
I mean, pretty much every state bordering California is cheaper than California. Just stay out of Portland.

Pretty much every State has a lower cost of living than California. Nevada, Oregon are next to California.

Nevada has job opportunities and is
>cheaper
Utah is growing and good but has
>Mormons

the taxes aren't that ridiculous
the salaries are high and this attracts a lot of people
this in turn makes rents and government spending go to the moon (public schools etc.)

it's a warm place with cuck police officers
all the homeless and tweakers live on the streets of san francisco
don't go to SF, it's like a picture from the 1800s with trash, human excrement covering and vagabonds the streets

>at least you can get healthcare as a poor person

My point exactly. Subsidizing. That is what destroys the working class.

I'm poor but don't get crap from the government.

>the taxes aren't that ridiculous

You basically get taxed for farting here. Property tax is a killer.

When I was living near broke in San Diego my healthcare was free.
>austerity helps the working poor
lmao, fuck outta here with this trickle-down bullshit.

Depends on where you live. Most people who work in the Bay Area don't live there. Most people I know live in the valley and commute sometimes 4 hours both ways.

I live in an edge city next to the Bay Area. We don't get anything and the pollution is horrible.

Listen peasant. If you can't AFFORD healthcare and are not a LEGAL resident, then bye bye.

Isn't medi-cal a state program? I filled out a form and they sent me a bunch of options. I picked Kaiser Permanente and I paid for none of it.

Sadly I am lower middle class so I can't afford shit.

Why are you defending insurance company porkies fucking you in the ass with preposterously over-inflated healthcare costs? Do you realize that no other country pays as much for such sub-standard care?

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I'm in purgatory where they say I make too much and poor af. But make too much to get anything of note because, I am the cutoff

50 years ago you would've been comfortable middle class. Thank liberals.

50 years ago the corporate tax rate was close to 90% and even Republicans like Eisenhower agreed with the new deal.

>Thank Boomers

FTFY

I feel you, my sister lives in NY and doesn't report much of her income on account of her Crohn's disease. The costs are so expensive that unless she makes more than 90k a year she will have less money in her pocket by reporting her legitimate income.

Because I pay taxes and work hard. I don't feel the money I earn should go to illegals. Other countries are more homogeneous and have less people. The US is unique in its design and structure.

50 years ago we had less illegals who drained our economy and resources. You could be a factory worker with no education and still afford a house and support a family. These liberal fucks who run California are the real winners these days.

Uniquely designed to siphon money from the poor. The great damnation of our healthcare isn't that it's unethical, it's just grossly inefficient. If we had a public option even dumbasses like you would pay less. The healthcare industry is designed in such a way to give consumers less purchasing power for their dollar. It's a scam. And you actually think it's day laborers and taco stand vendors that are immiserating the working class, fucking lol my dude.

Those gains in labor were directly caused by the union movement of the pre-war era, who were outright communists and anarchists. You don't know shit.
You know what's curtailed most of those gains? Republican legislation mostly, laws like "right to work" have impoverished every state where they have been passed.
Not that I'm a big fan of Democrats either. They've turned their back on unions as well. In fact, they're mostly to blame for the housing issue I cited earlier.

How are those states for transportation?
The problem with rural areas is that most of the time you need a car to get anywhere. If you don't have a car and you are walking, then you're screwed.
Are those states walkable?

The only places that seem to enable a carless existence are like, NY, Chicago, Portland, and Seattle. Everywhere else fucking sucks without a car.
The reality of living in America is that you will probably need a car at some point. Even if it's a junker that just takes you to work and back.

A junker is fine by me. It's the license that's the most bothersome. That and the insurance.

tell me more about nevada user
im almost in the same boat but i can use my gi bill for school. Is vocational schools a viable thing?

>California
>cheap
Not going to happen. One of the most expensive states in the US if not the most expensive.

Chico, you can go to Butte college and rent is inexpensive compared to the bay

Nevada is pretty cheap. I moved to reno a few years ago and decided to stay here because I could afford to live on my own. Plenty of shitty warehouse jobs around too.

bail out of commiefornia

The small towns around Santa Rosa vaguely fit your description. I was around there when I went to college. You may need to share an apartment with another person or two, but the Santa Rosa Junior College is quality, there's a lot of work out there, and everything's relatively close.

I've lived in California my whole life. The places you can afford to live are shitholes that you really are wasting money to be in relative to wherever you're coming from. I mean you're going to pay more money to be there and not really see any benefits.
>walking distance
You won't be able to afford this anywhere. It's extremely rare and expensive even in otherwise affordable areas.
>Entry level min wage work
>by a CC
You're competing with everyone in the CC for the same work, there's probably a four year college in the same area that's also competing.

>How are those states for transportation?
nevada (las vegas) here. youre pretty screwed if you dont have a car. walking is utter shit our city blocks are pretty big and walking from one major street to the next takes a good 5-10 min and that doesnt guarantee that that particular strip mall will have what you need. only one bus company (i think). bus company is decent because all our streets are perfectly straight/square shaped city blocks. no idea wtf people who rely on the bus system (losers) do for loads of groceries though, we dont really have corner supermarkets. no subways/trains/monorails or anything. good news is when there isn't fucking massive construction (like there is on the I15 right now) traffic isnt terrible (like how it is on the i15 all the fucking time)

Fresno.

It’s an absolute cheap shit hole with decent community colleges and plenty of minimum wage jobs

Isn't Fresno such white trash shithole town? Everything I've been led to believe all my life, leads me to believe that places like Fresno and the Central Valley are where CA's trash accumulated?