>You can either move a long way from your home, family, support network and live near your work, or you can maintain that community and support network but have

>You can either move a long way from your home, family, support network and live near your work, or you can maintain that community and support network but have a limited access to jobs. Is there enough people with that mindset in Bakersfield?the population is 400k, and the opposite narrative of commuting out the city to work the oil rigs probably isn't as common. From a political point of view, LA doesn't exactly in need of even more starry-eyed youth to compete with trying to make some career in the entertainment sector. >I assume LA has decent jobs somewhere between the "Holywood A-Lister" and the "$10/hour cleaner" scale, and due to its size it likely has more opportunities than Bakersfield alone. Definitely not in 2025. I guess we'll see if we're still in one piece in a decade.