Goodbye, L.A. and San Francisco. Hello, Riverside and Central Valley. California moves east

Moving to Lake Arrowhead wasn’t always part of Natalie Camunas’ plan.

When the 35-year-old and her partner purchased a small cabin in the mountains two years ago, they intended to use it as an investment property that they would rent out to vacationers looking for a forest escape. The couple bought the 670-square-foot home for $189,000, Camunas said, when housing prices in Southern California were climbing, but before they smashed records and hit an all-time high.

But after quarantining in their apartment in Los Angeles’s Fairfax district as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, discovering dead rats in their home and dealing with a bug infestation, they decided to make their move to San Bernardino County official in the fall of 2020.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.