California: Cost Of living

i am living in southern california.i lived in seattle and also in east coast.But the cost of living here is very very much.most of our income nearly 50% we are paying for rent.Even single bedroom itself costs around 1300 dollars.

I have no idea, but that is pretty typical to try to move old neighborhoods out to make room for more expensive condos and the like. I visited California and loved it but the real estate prices are out of this world

ya even i hahve heard that ca is quite expensive frm others

Throughout LA, Orange and SD there is alot of what is called gentrification - fix up the old areas and re-sell them to high-income people. In the process, many people who can barely afford to live in the run-down buildings are forced out because the prices in the area rise. If you rent an apartment and a developer buys the building out from under you to renovate and condo out, you can't afford the final result! There is alot of that happening in Downtown LA right now especially. In OC, Santa Ana is just one of the cities that has been happening in as well. It's good and bad - the old historic buildings are being saved and restored, but the end results are much more expensive. An artist's loft in a restored historic building gets a higher rent than a room in an unrestored historic building.

even though it sounds cruel, it is the old story of supply and demand. san diego is one of the best cities of the US (at least in my opinion), i have been there a lot of times and its great. unfortunately a prime location eventually demands prime payments to afford it the only way to avoid this is to move more inland away from the coast, there is still affordable housing there with a longer commute as a price to pay, but as long as san diego is such a great location this wont change and if it wasnt such a great location hardly anybody would complain about moving neighborhoods or high housing prices anyway or do you care about housing prices in el centro a few miles inland from san diego?

From what you've said it just sounds like what is happening practically everywhere in California. The major cities like San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, etc. are becoming so sought after; everyone wants to live there. So in respomse prices begin to rise and the demand for more housing becomes greater. So in the lack of more sufficient space, they begin to redo older buildings. That is what I have seen in many place, and may be what is happening in your area.