I’m 29/m working as a plumber/HVAC Tech and living right in the heart or Orange County. I net 70k/year and I’m practically in tears because this state treats me like a piece of chewing gum trying to get the last morsel of flavor I have yet. Rent alone is $1,700 and goes up $100 each year so I’m lucky if I stay in one spot for more than two.

My biggest grief is that I was born and raised here and felt that I should have an honest opportunity to own an OK spot in my homeland but I have been gentrified out of my own home.

I too am desperately looking to leave there is no hope trying to stay. You have two choices. Live like a Mexican and cram your self in a shoe box and have no prospect of home ownership or live in a suburban neighborhood that requires a bet I come of 100k plus to afford.

The destruction of the middle class is real in the OC. They only want the working poor and the upper wealthy to live here. Laguna started this way and so will the rest of the OC.

Second point as a technician I help close final inspection on many homes. Every million dollar home on up in Yorba Linda and Anaheim hills are being gobbled up by Chinese paying Cash on every property they can grab. NO WAY can I ever come up with a cash offer. It’s not even the mentality of home ownership and pride of homeownership because they let these properties fall to disrepair quite quickly. It’s more like a land grab.


As a millenial this is my frustration. I work hard put in my 40 and get Dick. Every other generation through hard work got given I place to live that’s theirs. I get shown the door or a life of servitude there is no line in between.
Also 2-3hr commutes everyday is no way to live as a compromise.