west coast dominance

[Keystonekid]

Best of the best and worst of the worst
What is the safest American city? The smartest? The fastest growing? 10 examples of America's superlative cities.
Top 5: Least affordable
City Median
household
income Median
home
price % of
affordable
homes
Los Angeles, CA $56,200 $523,000 1.8%
Santa Ana, CA $78,300 $626,000 2.6%
Modesto, CA $54,400 $372,000 4.1%
Stockton, CA $57,100 $310,000 4.8%
San Diego, CA $64,900 $477,000 4.9%
Source: Wells Fargo and National Association of Home Builders
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America's least affordable major housing market
Los Angeles, CA
Key stat: 1.8 percent of houses here are affordable to those earning the city's median income

In the nation's second city, very few houses, less than 2 percent of all sold during the year, were affordable to families earning the area's median income. At this point that would seem to shut the vast majority of the city's new buyers out of the local market.

In Los Angeles, the median home price is more than four times what it is in Indianapolis yet the household income is nearly $9,000 lower.

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I love charts like these.

[baywatcher]

Key to California housing is appreciation. If you can get in a house, just wait. Value will go up 50% in a given time, depending on cycles. Now is a down cycle, so some actually losing money, so cycle longer. But prices will go up and you'll make more money living in the house than working. Got to get started, and everybody spends a higher percentage of their income on housing here than elsewhere, with of course big city exceptions.

[bigfan]

This does not really have anything to do with West Coast dominance in womens volleyball....players want to go to schools that have great coaches.

[hammer]

The root of West Coast dominance in vball are the beaches of Southern California, not the housing prices, but thx for the table. What in the world is better than playing sandball at Hermosa, Corona del Mar, or Laguna?

[Keystonekid]

Hermosa my favorite, Will Rogers my least favorite. The culture of those two scenes is so different.

[Nutter]

And I thought this was a vb thread..........

[Wolfgang]

Amazingly, Pismo Beach (near San Luis Obispo...which, btw, is NOT Southern California. More like Central Coast) has dozens of beach volleyball "courts" set up. Not many play though. So sad to see. It's like they held a party and invited a bunch of people but no one showed up. I took my dogs walking there one weekend and both of them marked a couple of the poles.

[Reach]

outside of a larger population in LA, Chicago is and always will be known as the "2nd city".

[donneyp]

Today I drove through Santa Barbara and saw 13 beach courts.
I believe Ft. Lauderdale has 8.
If I recall, Rochester, NY has 6, all in Greece.
Long Island also has several beach courts.

Eastern and Central NY have almost none, and outside of a few select school districts like Horseheads, Burnt Hills, Baldwinsville, etc, the quality of volleyball isn't close.

I think beach courts just expose kids to the game at a younger age, and allow them to play more, younger, then most areas without beach volleyball. The cost of living is something that I would consider to be a detriment. If your parent's aren't rich, and they have to come up with payments for a $600k mortgage, you aren't playing club ball.

[beachman]

Dominance.;.........gotta be Nebraska!

[jgrout]

donneyp said:

If I recall, Rochester, NY has 6 [beach courts], all in Greece.

My home town of Greece, NY, is a suburb of Rochester with roughly 90,000 residents. Fed by a very large recreational program, Greece is a soccer hotbed. The large high schools that are in or draw from Greece... Greece Central's Olympia, Arcadia and Athena high schools, Hilton High School, Spencerport High School, Cardinal Mooney, and Aquinas (into which Cardinal Mooney was consolidated)... have many boys and girls state soccer championships between them. I would love to see volleyball take off in Greece the way soccer did, but it doesn't seem very likely.