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Originally Posted by terranova
Sure a fixed income will go further in the Sac area than LA, SF or SD, but there are still plenty of welfare recipients living in these expensive California cities, no? And there are plenty of rural areas in Cali where the rents are even cheaper than metro Sacramento. So is there any reason to believe that Bluevelo is suffering more economic blight per capita than other similar sized cities?
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Yes.
20% of Sacramento's population lives below the poverty line.
In San Francisco it's 11.8%.
Rancho Cordova isn't much better at 17%...
Of course, if you live in Anatloia (95742) it's barely over 2%.
It really just depends. Virginia Beach living below the poverty line. Atlanta and Long Beach are both above 20%. Detroit is at a whopping 36%. That's not exactly apples to apples. You don't even have to be remotely near the poverty line to be a welfare mooch, eg Sacramento's use of "low-income" housing funds to build welfare apartments for singles making $30-40k/year.