In 2018-2020, just two California metros weren’t among America’s 100 priciest places to live.
”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data.Finding a cost of living “bargain” in California is becoming an even more elusive search, and only two of 26 metro areas in the state were not among the nation’s 100 priciest places to live.that tracks a broad sample of expenses for 382 metropolitan areas — including 26 in California.
Consider that between 2008 and 2010, just nine of California’s 26 metros had a cost of living that ranked outside the costliest 100 U.S. communities, according to this federal math. Fresno was the 110th most-expensive spot of 382 metros, followed by Redding , Yuba City , Bakersfield , Hanford , Madera , Merced , Visalia , and El Centro .Monterey County suffered the state’s largest cost of living jump in this 10-year period, by the yardstick.
The decade’s 5.5-percentage-point jump — also the third-largest in the nation — pushed Monterey County’s cost of living to a level 10.9% above the nation’s average. That makes it the eighth-priciest place to live.This expense ratio rose 4.4 points, second-largest statewide and No. 13 nationally — to 6.8% above the 2018-20s average .Up 3.7 points to 3.3% above average .Up 3.6 points to 11.9% above average .Up 3.5 points to 9.6% above average .
That means even California’s cheapest communities are fairly expensive on a national scale — another factor why California does so poorly attracting new residents.Here’s how other California metro areas tracked, ranked by expense-ratio increases over 10 years …Santa Barbara:Up 2.4 points to 0.1% above average .San Diego:Jonathan Lansner is the business columnist for the Southern California News Group.
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