This is California’s most affordable zip code, study says
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- Ridgecrest, a city near Bakersfield and the Sequoia National Forest in Kern County, was considered to be the most affordable place to buy property in California, according to a new analysis. trib.al/hW5S7g3
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LOL so stupid, of course its cheap because its in the middle of the desert! If you're going to live that far away and still be in CA taxes, you might as well move to Las Vegas. At least that desert has activities to explore.
Right? Unless you work remotely, there’s no work out there either.
@@DeeLite220 yes, there is... Walmart and Marshalls lol
Or Phoenix, AZ 😎
because they literally built this city on top of a fault line
Ridgecrest is closer to Death Valley than LA, so it's pretty obvious why no one wants to live there... most people move to CA to be close to the water, not the desert 😂
Moving that far from LA you might as well move to Vegas or Arizona (which most ppl tend to do lol)
Ever heard of Rancho Mirage? Indian Wells? Palm Desert? Palm Springs? Desert doesn't necessarily mean undesirable and cheap.
You also need to be close to work in order to make enough money
I should think Trona, in Death Valley, would be the cheapest. Oh, that's right - the population is too small.
Google Images: Idyllwild Ca, Bishop Ca, Sutter Creek, Copperopolis, Sonora Ca, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Calistoga, Mammoth Lakes, The Eastern Sierra.
Unless you work for the government or defense contractor there’s nothing there.
the american dream... buying a house
the american nightmare... buying a house in ridgecrest
I actually moved from Los Angeles ( Elysian Valley) to Ridgecrest. The comment section is brutal and I get it, I grew up in LA too and there is LA/OC and everything else is the boonies. My wife and I sold our house because we got tired of living in the crowded city and wanted a place with "a small town feel" but still had big city stuff like a walmart, home depot, starbucks, regional hospital, etc and this city has it. Yes this city is known for the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake but there are pros and cons to everything. In LA everything is expensive and there are gangs and crime. Everywhere you drive there is traffic and you have to fight for parking. Originally we wanted to move to Texas but we have family in LA and we still want to be able to visit them a few times a month. Unfortunately most of the money we got from selling our house went to paying off our mortgage for that house but we still had enough to make a massive down payment on our Ridgecrest house and I bought my dream truck!!! My wife and I wanted a better place to raise our kids and we believe we found it. Our kids are going to grow up with ATVs/ dirt bikes and living the country life. They will not experience the gang culture, crime, and homelessness that LA unfortunately has. Yes it is very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter but we have central AC in the house so we dont feel it. Spring and Fall actually feel great with a average temp of 70ish...oh the best part NO MOSQUITOES!!! mosquitoes cant breed in the desert.
My sister and nephews live there. The kids HATE it because there's very little to do besides desert life. Summers are unbearable and your winters can get extremely windy with sand everywhere on the roads 😂. My sister works at Ridgecrest Regional Hospital
The big question is what do you even do for a living out there, you gotta have a really low mortgage payment or some kushy job like for a school district or something
My husband who came from East Coast to California because he works for Dept of Defense relocated us to Ridgecrest in 2021 and we both enjoyed it. He loved the desert and going off-roading on his motorcycles. He said his dad would have loved it there. I’m not a big time city girl either. I like smaller towns. I found Ridgecrest to be clean and beautiful, hardly any homeless at all. I actually don’t remember seeing any now that I think about it. I’m glad you and your family are enjoying Ridgecrest.
yea because no one wants to live in the desert with drug addicts, thats just 60-80 minutes away from lancaster
Now that is far out, I thought they were say Hemet/San Jacinto
Exactly. From coast to coast, they always do stories about the most affordable ZIP Codes in each state. Every single time it’s somewhere in the boondocks where you pretty much have to have all your money secured at that point if you wanna live there. Like you can’t live in these affordable places and have any sort of commute because it’s way too freaking far plus you said it’s a lot of weird sketchy people in most of these places
BFE Nowhere . LoL 😂
Where do you live ? The middle of nowhere
shut up there is drug addicts all over LA EVEN Beverly Hills.
@@saulalvarez220 Yes but we are not talking about Wealth Privilege. You know the old double standards, Rules for Thee Not Me.
My sister and nephews live in Ridgecrest. It's a boring, small town, with bad weather almost year around. If the extreme heat in the summer isnt bad enough, you get extreme winds in the winter
You are not giving the whole story me thinks
Aye not bad. only 4 hours away from work with no traffic.
Near the prison.
If you're in prison, you can live there for free!
It’s not where you live......It’s how you live . 😎🇺🇸
Except for the Navy base, there is literally nothing out in Ridgecrest.
Sorry, but Ridgecrest is close to some of the most incredible areas in the western US !
The Owens Valley, which has great hunting, fishing, climbing, bird watching and the Eastern Sierras, never mind the incredible National Park "Death Valley", also close by.
If you are an outdoors lover, this is Base Camp Baby
@@dave9351 Sure, but where can you work in Ridgecrest? The only jobs are tied to China Lake. Without the Navy, Ridgecrest would look like Randsburg. Ridgecrest can't exist as a tourism destination. Lancaster and Palmdale only exist because of commuters that work in the L.A. basin. Just look at California City--talk about an armpit of the State. Take away the prison (which is going to close) and Edwards AFB, the place would turn into a ghost town.
@@user-xi2nx9qk1nthere’s a museum with some older aircraft there. Every morning at 8 am I could hear the National Anthem being played coming from China Lake. It was pretty cool.
If you like to off-road, there’s plenty of that. I can’t tell you how many people go there to ride their blazers, motorcycles, 4 wheelers. It was fun.
But I get it…small town not close to big cities by 2 hours isn’t for everyone. I’m a country girl so I enjoyed it.
@@Emily_Paris It's not about how great Ridgecrest is as a recreation town. It's about the other five days in a week--where is a person supposed to work?!!! Without a job you can't afford to ride their atv's and bikes over sand dunes since you won't be able to buy anything in the first place!! Living in Ridgecrest is cheap because there is only one real employer--the US Government. If there were other jobs or ability to commute to jobs, the place wouldn't be so cheap. It would be another Lancaster/Palmdale.
It only takes an hour to drive from Lancaster to Ridgecrest. It takes only 40 minutes to get to Red Rock Canyon. Of you lived in Ridgecrest, how close is the nearest doctor's office if you need a specialist? What about if you need ongoing care like having chemotherapy that requires a hospital? Good luck...
I lived in Ridgecrest for 3 months and I actually liked it. I’m not a desert person but it was fun. If you like off-roading it’s really cool. It’s a peaceful city. It has greenery. The city is well-kept and I didn’t really see any homeless there. China Lake is right there and I enjoyed listening to the Star Spangled Banner at 8 am every morning coming from China Lake. There are some ghost towns nearby like Randsburg. Lake Isabella isn’t too far from there either.
But there’s one catch…you have to live in Ridgecrest.
Unless you are somehow connected to the Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake, there really is nothing out there.
Gotta love the honest and direct comments on here.😅😂🤣👍
It wouldn’t be a bad location if you got a job at the naval base.
I'll move there if there is a Costco 😆
No such creature. Closest one is Lancaster.
They trolling now 🤣
Remember the earthquakes there a few years ago,, add extreme high temperature desert
That was rare for Ridgecrest to get an earthquake that big back in 2019.
LOL, i just google earth that place, it's almost a 3-hours drive from LA. it's just nuts. But at least there's starbucks
I rather be homeless in Redondo Beach 😂🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
that is so modest, try palos verdes !
Too many earthquakes in Ridgecrest
There's one literally every day. You get to where you don't even feel anything under a 4.0.
You can toss it around and kick it in the head but the fact still remains. Location matters. Zip code matters, that is 90% determinant in a homes price. It may be a nice home for some but that does not make the price.
Hell nah.. I got heat stress working there in the summer. I'm good.
Has to be in a very undesirable area…..I mean Compton is getting higher prices
300k to live in one of the worst spots in the USA.
A year ago, it cost twice that much for a bungalow in the war zone known as East Oakland.
Yeah, I don’t think so.
Beggars can’t be choosers
Never heard of this crappy city 😂
Cuz it's kern county. Nothing but land and heat
@@HighPricedManiacThe Texas of California
If you've never heard of it, then how do you know it's a "crappy city"?
I was going to say that, too. But, I grew up there. It is indeed a crappy city, in the states worst county.
Not any more after this
Sure, great if you can work from home. Commuting anywhere might be prohibitive.
It should be cheap ain't no jobs out there
I don't think earthquakes are factors. The Bay Area and the San Fernando Valley are prone to earthquakes. Also, there is a fault line that goes through San Diego and also threatened by the San Jacinto Fault 70 miles away.
It's not the earthquakes being the issue, it's the extreme weather and lack of things to do for young people. You will commute far if you want to leave that place for anything besides desert.
Nowhere is affordable in california
More like Butt Crest
"The Ridgecrest earthquakes began on July 4, 2019, with a magnitude 6.4 quake, as measured by seismologists. It moved along 9 miles of a strike-slip fault line. The next day, a larger earthquake of magnitude 7.1 occurred."
Which is very uncommon for that area to get earthquakes like that
I'd have thought 93505 aka California City would be #1...
California City compared to Ridgecrest is a center of the Universe !
I lived in Cal City for a year. They do have some nice houses but I liked Ridgecrest more because it was bigger, more greenery, clean, more shops and restaurants, beautiful homes, didn’t really see any homeless there.
Hell no. That place had too many earthquake and hot as hell in the summer 😂
Baker California is bettter 😂
How's the job market in Ridgecrest CA ?
Close to nonexistent, unless you have the skills to work on base.
Wow! That is worth moving, too. Affordable ❤
NOT! It is a daily Earthquake zone.
At least check it out.
add paradise to that...
i was searching new home builds and Paradise popped up. they're trying to rebuild the city after they massive fire. At least they put in the work to build those new homes but dammmn. let's see if they sell
The American dream is dead in California. I bought my home in the 90s. In a beach communitie in South Bay Area of LA County. For under $200,000. The moment homes in Compton and Watts moved into the $300,000 mark, the dream was over. One of the problems with boonie communities is that when there is nothing for kids to do, they get into trouble. And in small communities that trouble is really noticeable.
Ridgecrest is now a desirable, affordable place to live? I suppose we can now expect home prices and rents to rise until it too becomes untenable like the rest of California😅
Most affordable city because of the 5 fault lines that all pass through it. No thanks.
Ridgecrest is way out in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Hollywood price is 3 million,that sound hard to believe. 15million maybe.👨🍳👩🍳
So what zip code is Slab City ? I thought that was the most affordable in CA lol
If you can take the heat, you could live inside the devil's but for just 200k.
🤣😂🙂🤪 Of course the prices are the lowest! Ridgecrest is the Earthquake capital of the U.S.A., so it is not a good place to live, unless you like cracks in your driveway and walls. Every day the earth moves in Ridgecrest.
It might be affordable, but it's bone dry, dusty, in the desert and basically in the middle of nowhere aside from a rest stop if you're driving up that way.
HOMES SHOULD BE A $1 IN THAT DUMP
just stay in your trailer park
Welcome to Center point for earthquakes
I mean Ridgecrest.
It’s sooooo far from anything that’s a fkn joke
Even better 😁
Ridgecrest No Thank You
It’s in the middle of no where!
Ridgecrest said thanks 😅
In Coalinga Ca The Houses Are Cheap Too🤷🏽♂️
120 in the shade 1,000 dollar a month power bill freezing cold in winter. drugs everywhere you look.
Yes, but then you have to live in Kern county.
What they forgot to mention this town is in the middle of Nowhere 200 Miles away from society 😂😂
It’s 2 hours away from Bakersfield or Palmdale
If within most region prices, you would have a gene autry waste land. Population 5 within entire area. Only reason it's fraction priced compared to nearly all regions. Couldnt capture even autrys interest.
I guess I'll just keep on staying homeless in West LA.😅
Long commutes.
Not anymore after this vid
They made a movie about Ridgecrest - The China Lake Murders (1990) starring Tom Skerritt (Alien).
Don't think it's about Ridgecrest, it was filmed in Joshua Tree which is bottom east of LA. And China lake is a book and not just a part of Ridgecrest. I wish it was about Ridgecrest though.
Most affordable but with what job LMAO
That place is destined to be a fallout zone when WW4 breaks out
LoL ofc it's in a desert
It was a whole lot better buying a home when Trump was around good luck people on buying a home now
Nope. California home prices were too high when Trump was President, too.
That's a lie I live here 😊
There's always housing within the reach of regular Joes. But most people want to live in places where everybody else wants and then complain about the price. If you can't afford to live where you work, then your labor is probably easily replaceable in your community.
@@user-xi2nx9qk1n That 160k person can quit and see how quick another person gets hired for the same post. If a "smart" person can't figure out his living situation, he may be thinking too highly of himself.
Isn't that where earthquakes occur regularly?
Ewwww
Because nobody wants to live there. Supply and Demand.
It’s nothing there tho
Ok ! House affordable but there are no jobs out there no life either !
Earth quake zone
zip code out of nowhere. makes sense lol
Boring but affordable. Clearlake is $210k
Out in the boonies lol
the most affordable place for californians to live is Texas
Socialist Nightmare.
Have you seen Ridgecrest?🙄
I would rather live in Mexico than in California right now. It's all or nothing in California, and it's being taken over by Mexico anyhow, so easy transition.
93556
Problem is, it's Still in Commiefornia.
Kern County is THE most conservative County in America. Ridgecrest is probably 80% conservative voters.
But who wants to live there? 😂🤣
Ridgecrest, CA 93556
Good luck with the earthquakes and goodbye, American dream.