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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can’t afford to live in socal on those salaries, especially with kids. Move to Fresno and commute.[/quote]

Op here. What if I find a job in SoCal? Is a combined HHI of 480k enough do you think? With 2 kids?[/quote]

of course! especially if your kids take advantage of the UC system :-)[/quote]

Op here….i am dumb and my kids are very little. Are you being sarcastic or how does this work?

Clearly I have a lot to learn!![/quote]

OP, why are you moving to CA when you seem to know nothing about it? I'm genuinely asking. [/quote]

Op here. My kids are young so college strategizing is not on my radar yet.

I have traveled to California dozens of times and even lived in Northern California for several years. I have spent less time in Southern California. I’ve visited several times but that’s not the same as living there, especially now that i have kids. My question was more trying to think through the logistics of our two job options rather than exploring a bunch of data related to SoCal.

The reasons we want to move there are primarily that our careers feel very stalled at the moment, and it seems we are going to have to move if we want to change that. The places where we have had opportunities lately have been DMV (we moved away 5 years ago), Texas, California, and North Dakota. California is the most attractive to us from that list.[/quote]

Thanks for answering. I won't try to convince you not to move to CA: I'm from there and there's a lot to love. But it is a difficult and expensive place to live, with a lot of people competing for the same resources. The same terrain that makes it beautiful really limits the commuting situation and the places you'd want to live. I moved to the DMV which I consider more reasonable for working families,  with more options on where to work and live.

So because it's difficult and expensive to live in CA, you need to simplify your daily logistics as much as possible and not create a tenuous situation in which one bad travel day or regional issue (eg local weather) can upend things at home or jeopardize the spouse's job. Even if you wanted a full time nanny, the salaries you describe probably aren't enough to do that comfortably plus the travel.[/quote]

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