Best place to live in california for recent MBA graduate 25?
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I live in Louisville, but have relatives near San Francisco and a college friend living near Los Angeles.
San Jose, in Silicon Valley south of San Francisco is my top pick. If you prefer the feel of living in a large city, San Francisco is great. If you want to go to southern California, it would be Orange County (Huntington Beach, Newport Beach) south of LA.
I love California, but so do many other people with the result being that the cost of living is significantly higher in California compared to Louisville, so I am not as sure about finding a place where you can afford rent.
According to Sperling's, some differences in the cost of living would be:
To maintain the same standard of living, your salary of $50,000 in Louisville, Kentucky should increase to $87,931 in Los Angeles-Long Beach, California (it's 75.9% more expensive to live in Los Angeles-Long Beach, California than Louisville, Kentucky)
To maintain the same standard of living, your salary of $50,000 in Louisville, Kentucky should increase to $101,724 in San Diego, California (it's 103.4% more expensive to live in San Diego, California than Louisville, Kentucky).
To maintain the same standard of living, your salary of $50,000 in Louisville, Kentucky should increase to $110,345 in San Jose, California (it's 120.7% more expensive to live in San Jose, California than Louisville, Kentucky).
To maintain the same standard of living, your salary of $50,000 in Louisville, Kentucky should increase to $118,391 in San Francisco, California (it's 136.8% more expensive to live in San Francisco, California than Louisville, Kentucky).
I live in Sonoma County, specifically Santa Rosa. The rent is slightly high as it is throughout california. But, Santa Rosa and neighboring towns is about 20-25 minutes away from the coast, in the heart of the wine country, and has many huge corporations all around it.
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