i want to live in california
It's a nice place to visit, but living there is expensive real estate wise. That is if you want a nice place.
If land is expensive in the same way gas is over there, it'd still be dirt cheap by UK standards.
Lands a tricky thing there is so much of it but everybody seems to want it in the same areas driving up the price. Where I live the average for an empty .25 acre lot is around $130,000
right on the water in my town they start at over $350,000. Down closer to NYC they pay $750,000 for a house to tare down an build a 2-3 million dollar house. My brother paid cash for his house in a not so popular area so you mileage varies greatly