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Are those area nice
Bingo hit the nail in the coffin.
There's only so many jobs that pay enough to live in all these newly built condos that cost 3.5k+ a month....
Are those areas nice?palmdale / san berndinano / riverside
It won't crash as long as job demand is up. Buuuuuttt when it does...... Oh manThe only hope I see for Blacks in Cali is if this current boom utterly collapses (like it probably will) bankrupting developers and gentrifiers and bringing prices back into affordability. However, given state demographics there are more Hispanics and Asians to take hold of that opportunity than us.
Yeah they're alright. These areas are like 90% residential areas. The problem is they're 40-50 miles from the city. All the jobs and fun things to do are in the city.Are those areas nice?
It won't crash as long as job demand is up. Buuuuuttt when it does...... Oh man
It sucks.
Wish black people owned more.
This wouldn't be as easy if we owned our homes.
There arw no guranteea in renting.
Yeah they're alright. These areas are like 90% residential areas. The problem is they're 40-50 miles from the city. All the jobs and fun things to do are in the city.
It's a double edged sword. The real problem imo, is the breakdown of the black middle class. So in LA, a lot of educated black people make pretty good money, but in general they tend not to live around each other. There's not a strong enough sense of black community to live in a certain area like Koreans in Ktown, Jewish people in Hancock Park, etc. It's like black people get put on then run to white daddy and live in white neighborhoods. When there should be more middle class / to affluent black communities. So there's Baldwin Hills, that's not enough. To put it simply blacks in LA don't really fukk with each other like that, there's a lot of tokenism.It sucks.
Wish black people owned more.
This wouldn't be as easy if we owned our homes.
There arw no guranteea in renting.
Agreed.True but I also wish Black people wouldn't put all our wealth eggs in the homeownership basket. That worked so well back in 2008.
This is very true as well and for my experience a lot of black people who make it don't look back a lot of the times or they have a holier-than-thou attitude about other black people who did not become as successful as them.It's a double edged sword. The real problem imo, is the breakdown of the black middle class. So in LA, a lot of educated black people make pretty good money, but in general they tend not to live around each other. There's not a strong enough sense of black community to live in a certain area like Koreans in Ktown, Jewish people in Hancock Park, etc. It's like black people get put on then run to white daddy and live in white neighborhoods. When there should be more middle class / to affluent black communities. So there's Baldwin Hills, that's not enough. To put it simply blacks in LA don't really fukk with each other like that, there's a lot of tokenism.
diversify your stock portfolio and you'll be straight.Agreed.
People keep telling me to buy a house and I'm not even in my thirties yet I rather pay off credit card debt vehicle debt and build a nice saving before I do that.
People saying it's a great investment but there are plenty of better Investments to make before buying a house which I personally don't think should be looked at as an investment
diversify your stock portfolio and you'll be straight.Agreed.
People keep telling me to buy a house and I'm not even in my thirties yet I rather pay off credit card debt vehicle debt and build a nice saving before I do that.
People saying it's a great investment but there are plenty of better Investments to make before buying a house which I personally don't think should be looked at as an investment
Yeah some of it is jobs but let's be real that the Silicon Valley money spigot and Chinese buyers are doing their fair share. Then there is the Fed easy money. If one of these stops, I would call it a wrap.