Cost of living in 10 of California's major cities, ranked cheapest to most expensive

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San Francisco Bay Area and Golden Gate Bridge in California

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A $1.7 million prefab tiny home community was designed to help solve homelessness in an expensive Southern California city. A year later, half of its residents have found homes.

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Inside a tiny home at DignityMoves' Santa Barbara location
Of the 66 people who have stayed at DignityMoves' Santa Barbara prefab tiny home community, 36 have gone on to find permanent housing.

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Silicon Valley Elites Show Off Renderings of Exclusive New City They Want to Build in the Bay Area

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You don’t have to stray too far into science fiction or comic book tales to find examples of megalomaniacal tech businessmen creating their own “utopian” metropolises, before—inevitably—everything goes to hell. Now several titans of Silicon Valley are hoping they can get their way with their own dream city that,…

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A company that counts billionaires Marc Andreessen and Laurene Powell Jobs as investors says it's bought 50,000 acres of land to build a new 'walkable' city in northern California. Here's everything we know about the plans.

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California Forever counts Marc Andreessen and Laurene Powell Jobs among its investors.

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Forget snowbirds: 'Sweat birds' flee the heat of Texas and Arizona to spend summer in cooler northern climates

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Cindy Woudenberg lives most of her year in Arizona and spends the hotter months in Michigan.

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A California homeowner fixed up her converted garage and rents it on Airbnb. It now pays for her mortgage.

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Outside Selma Hepp's ADU in Burbank, California.
Outside Selma Hepp's ADU in Burbank, California.

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California's attorney general is suing a school district that's forcing teachers to tell parents if transgender and nonbinary students want to change their pronouns

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Attendees hold up signs at the Chino Valley Unified School District's meeting discussing the policy on July 20, 2023.

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Uber bans most under 25s from driving for the company in California because of rising insurance costs

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Uber said it allow under-25s who are currently signed up to continuing driving for the company, however.

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A California dental worker was fired after a video of her verbally abusing another McDonald's customer went viral

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The incident happened at a McDonald's outlet in Fresno, California.

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Video shows the moment a California bear opens the door to a man's home: 'I nearly fell off the couch'

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A still from a recording of a digital doorbell shows a beer at the front door of a house in Half Moon Bay, California. The bear was caught skillfully opening the front door before leaving without a trace.

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