Hot young thrifty guy buys a house in California

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The Central Valley?

Pass.

He chose wisely.

I hadn't realized until reading the article just how much a slight incident while viewing a home can sour a deal..."bickering neighbors."

Which one did he choose? The poll questions to read the article aren’t clickable on Archive.

Where is the cable on the left going? To what is it attached?

What a strangely staged picture.

Dear NYT:

And how exactly does this spell doom for Kamala Harris and the Democrats?

He choose door #2

Dante’s 8th circle is Bakersfield

Ugly.

He’s hot.

What's the point of this article? That homes can be bought in places that most people would off themselves out of boredom? That he lived with his family at the age of 30 to save money?

Bakersfield is gross.

Not as hot as a sidewalk in southwest Bakersfield. Trip, fall and get a second-degree burn from the concrete.

R10 would not be a regular reader of this feature, or he would know that the NYT typically features CA homes in multiples of millions of dollars—and takes real shit for it in the readers’ comments.

R2, HARD pass.

You can definitely find cheaper but you are in a undesirable area....

R4, he picked the fixer-upper with promise.

R14 - there is no promise in Bakersfield.

The first house looked better. “The kitchen needed to be updated” but I’d prioritize new flooring throughout. The fixer-upper needed everything and it was only $20,000 cheaper.

Bakersfield is better than deplorable central NorCal valley. Believe me, I grew up there.

For a moment during Covid lockdown Bakersfield was a trending hipster location. More space, 2 hours from the coast, less from the Sierra Nevada, and CHEAP housing. It even has some music cred, the 'Bakersfield Sound'. You could almost, ALMOST overlook the grimness of it's constantly grey and polluted skies, the corrupt Kern County governance, your MAGA neighbors, the fact that you're close to much better places that you can't afford.

And those houses would have been $199k a few years ago.

[quote] Bakersfield is better than deplorable central NorCal valley. Believe me, I grew up there.

Be more specific. I live 90 miles north of Sacramento in a town that is NOTHING like Bakersfield. We have a university, one of the largest municipal parks in the COUNTRY (okay, it's on fire right now but contained) two and a half hours from San Francisco. The house we bought with a pool would have been two million dollars more in the bay area.

The only benefit of his remaining in Bakersfield is that he will be close to his family. I would never want to live there but good for him.

His insta is worth checking out.

R18 I assume you live in Chico. Maybe it isn’t racist and homophobic anymore, but it sure was when I lived there…. The other towns in Butte county are utter trash.

Is Bakersfield where they grow the avocados?

Bakersfield is the Butthole of California. To say that Chico is somehow worse than Bakersfield destroys your credibility. Smfh. I find that people who have not lived in both ends of California often make these errors.

Bakersfield has the most polluted air in the United States. FACT.

What is his IG handle r20

All three of those houses seem awfully small for 3BR/2BA. My little townhouse is 3BR/2.5BA and is larger than all three of those. And the rooms in my house aren't large. I thought most single-family one-level houses built after the '50s at least had a family room. (Mine doesn't.)

He looks like he needs his temperature taken.

WITH MY ALL-BEEF THERMOMETER!

First option under his name r25.