california: I am looking to move to California after I get my bachelors. I am planning on getting a house if not live in a apartment complex. I prefer to live in an good area with rent around 600-850 per month and a community that has mixed races. Great schools beaches, shopping area, city like not ghetto, urban community.|||Blythe|||You can't live near the beach for that rent, especially where there are jobs. $900 is the low end for a studio apartment in LA. (You're way off $$ even for a tiny house in an ok area.) You can likely find a studio in Glendale or Pasadena (both nice diverse communities) for $900, they're not near the beach, but you'll be working so you won't have much time to hang out on the beach anyway. You might not like what you find at that cost. If you bump your budget up to over $1000, you might be able to find a studio in an ok area of Culver City/Palms, about 5 miles from the beach, but again, you might not be happy with what you find at that price. Anywhere in LA the neighborhoods tend to change block to block, sometimes a lot, so it's hard to look at apartment ads and know you found something great -- you're likely to find out that it's in a very sketchy area. If it seems too good to be true...... Google: Los Angeles apartment rental scams, and rental scams We have lots of rental scams in LA, we really don't do unapproved sublets, so a landlord must check out your rental and credit histories, and there are lots of roommate scams that will leave you without your money and a place to live. Be sure you have a job before you move out here, or enough saved for about 6 months while you look for a job. It might take significantly longer, depending on your profession. You'll want to live close to your job, traffic here is slow and stressful. Good luck!|||You want beaches and a city for 850 a month? LOL. You won't even find that for a bedroom in a nice beach community. To MAYBE find a decent studio apt for that extremely low price range you would have to live like an hour inland from any beachy area.|||$600-850 mo. that has beaches? Nowhere. You can't even get that in Los Angeles, period whether it's by a beach or 40 miles away from one. For $600-850, expect a ghetto/urban community, if even.|||Star the cost of living in Los Angeles, CA is 53.9% higher than in Pittsburgh, PA If you move from Pittsburgh, PA to Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA.... Groceries will cost: 2% more Housing will cost: 178% more Utilities will cost: 5% more Transportation will cost: 7% more Healthcare will cost: 21% more|||Good schools, proximity to beaches, good shopping, not ghetto, and urban with your budget? Ha, that isn't happening unless you wanna slim down your requirements or expand on your budget.|||San Ysidro at the Mexican border. Not far from the beach, not ghetto, not urban, mixed races.|||Rural California out in the Central Valley or desert.|||try the San Francisco bay area.there are a lot of affordable places outside of San Francisco.|||Truckee