[FITZ]

Those are pretty good wages for a restaurant ---around here the wages are quite a bit lower ---but how can those workers afford homes in California? Or do many live in subsidized housing?

[liberalnot]

i know several adult children of mexican illegals who now manage fast food restaurants in san diego and riverside counties. they are all married, and the spouses work, and thus, they can afford houses. one woman from the yucatan area of mexico told me that she makes $35 and her husband, $48. out of this they send money to their parents, and they bought a house. but they drive older cars.

i doubt that you could afford a house here on one salary. the lowest new priced homes in riverside county are $200,000+, and that gets you a long, long commute. most of riverside county is hot, varying from low desert or high desert summer temps well above 100 degrees.

san diego housing prices are out of control. and orange and los angeles counties are even more.

i'd guess the metro average home goes for $300-350,000. any coastal, safe, property will cost large bucks.

prices are, of course, less in the barrios or ghettos.

i noticed in last sunday's los angeles times that desert hot springs, across from palm springs, you could get a house for $91,000. and that's a drug-infested, crime-infested desert town.

the area around riverside-temecula boasts the meth amphetamine suppliers for the united states. high crime. people that live in riverside-temecula commute either to san diego, orange, or los angeles counties mostly.