Wow, California Housing Is Expensive
“Which U.S. city has the highest rents? San Francisco, right? Maybe New York? Ummm, no. San Ramon is an affluent (median household income: $151,327) 1 San Francisco suburb of 75,639 that’s probably best known outside the Bay Area as the headquarters of oil and gas giant Chevron Corp. I grew up a few miles away, in Lafayette, which is too small for the Census Bureau to provide single-year estimates but had a median gross rent of $1,816 from 2012 through 2016.”