How many of you could "make it" in San Diego?

Wtf is that supposed to mean? SD is not a HCOL city and I grew up there. If you’re poor just live in east San Diego or Chula Vista where you’re closer to the border for whoremaxxing every weekend in tj

Buying ‘Starter Home' in San Diego? You Need to Make $187,000 a Year: Realtor.com

According to a recent report from Realtor.com, you'll need to cough up $4,666 a month for a mortgage for a starter home in San Diego.

The report, which breaks down starter-home prices and the required annual household incomes for 20 cities around the United States, shows that San Diegans would need to make $186,645 per year to afford one locally, priced in at $669,000.

Those figures are calculated using a 10% down payment with a 6.25% mortgage rate (good luck with that: NBC News reported Thursday that the 30-year home mortgage rate just hit 6.7%!) and a 1.72% tax rate.

"Unfortunately, just to get a starter home, most people are priced out of that market, most households are priced out of that market," Gin said. "You either have to make a big amount of income or you will have to have come from another place where the housing market is also pretty high, where you can sell your home and make a good amount there and that gives you enough then to put a bigger down payment then on the house."


https://www.nbcsandiego.com/entertai...r-com/3060516/

I don’t know

SD is hands down the best city in the country. Perfect weather, beautiful women, and best bar district.

Yup, I could/am.

I have in the past, but left and have no desire to do that. COL is pretty ridiculous, and imo not at all worth it (though there are some really nice things about the city and I have a lot of fond memories from my time there).

I live in a major city that has plenty of things available while having a house for FAR cheaper and being able to stack away a bunch of money towards retirement. While there were a lot of things I really liked about the place, the biggest selling points don't mean shyt to me. The weather and sunshine? I like 4 seasons and love cloudy days - the weather there gets very boring. Beaches? Get old fairly quick and the ones there are kind of meh anyway.

There were numerous things I did like though (some of the food available, some of the stores, the overall geographic diversity), don't get me wrong. Also, while not being real big on whoremaxxing - having that option to do that in TJ (and/or just party down there in general) is pretty nice. I probably went there less than a dozen times total in my 7 years there though.

SD is not HCOL compared to LA, NYC, or SF. But when rent is $3,000 & the cheapest homes cost between $600,000 - $800,00 & the jobs don't support the economy. What would you call it?

The jobs here pay what the Midwest and middle America pays. It's like living in Oklahoma and paying $3,000 in rent.There is this one lady who is a single mom with 1 kid who lives in the same apartments as I do. Once they force her out with renovations, she has said that she doesn't know where she will go. She works minimum wage and has lived there since the 90s. In order to qualify for rent, she would need to be making $9,000 per month since you can pay rent if you make 3x the rent amount, so at least $108,000.

Basically if you make less than that, you cannot make it in San Diego.

I live in Chula Vista and do just fine. I rent an old apartment. of course there is a huge difference between here and downtown or other fancy places but its just fine for my needs.

Dont make a lot of money by any stretch but still do ok. Will move to a cheaper state in a few years,

Not everyone needs to buy a house or live in the fanciest areas. Thats what people dont seem to grasp. It would be nice sure but there are tons of places that are not cheap by any stretch but more affordable than others.

Forget buying a house unless you are rich, want to be broke or both. The ones on my street that I am looking at right now and share a parking lot with are like 600-700k. Some are a couple million. They are the nicest ones but still way too much.

Could "make it", but it's no longer high on my list of places to consider moving to. One being near a military base. COL is just too high for it to make sense from a financial standpoint either. Prefer nature dense locations for my next move.

Dogor****göt makes it there, so anyone can

Went to a conference there in 2019.

So much inkie trash. Almost every sloot was a degen inkie.

East San Diego and Chula or further south may as well be Mexico bruh.

Maybe it wasn't when you were growing up, but it certainly is now unless you're comparing to the most expensive cities in the US.

That said OP, yes I am currently making it here in SD day by day

Nah. I can't make it. I was renting a tiny room and riding my motorcycle around town from around 2012-2019. The city was overall very congested and but not too expensive IMO. Gas/rent was expensive but day-to-day costs weren't that bad. They've now gotten exponentially worse from what I've heard. I just remember everything being overly crowded. All the hiking trails, parks, touristy areas basically became flooded during the weekends. Also, San Diego gets a surprising amount of overcast days if you live closer to the water's edge. Just something that most people don't know.

Have lived in San Diego pretty much my whole life. Bought my first house in early 20’s (Rancho Bernardo) & have always made over a 100k when I sold it. Own 2 homes now that are almost paid off,I could not imagine being in my 20’s now trying to buy here. I was working 2 jobs and going to school (SDSU), honestly my heart goes out to see so many struggling.