{"id":1112,"date":"2026-09-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:00:00","slug":"californias-cheapest-place-to-live-in-2026-is-a-quaint-alpine-city-less-than-3-hours-from-l-a-where-median-home-prices-are-just-325000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/californias-cheapest-place-to-live-in-2026-is-a-quaint-alpine-city-less-than-3-hours-from-l-a-where-median-home-prices-are-just-325000\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s cheapest place to live in 2026 is a quaint alpine city less than 3 hours from L.A., where median home prices are just $325,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Porterville is the cheapest city to live in California in 2026, with a median home price of $325,000 and median rent of $1,358, both well below state averages. Its overall cost of living is 12% lower than the state average, earning it the highest affordability score. Other affordable California cities include Fresno, Bakersfield, Tulare, Eureka, Visalia, Stockton, Chico, Sacramento, and Clovis.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihwFBVV95cUxONHRjU1NSM3RiMjYzNmxxZFplV2w0cHhWZ2hxdUFMekdtQkpvZHFqMUoxVnZyOHZSUTAxOHhlREtGenBReW1ya20wc2xqZFpiUDF1aTZLdjZmTy1DRWFzMkpSMkZqLUlJbzBOWnB4eXF2Z0ZqTmVkY2FvZWhrV05SdlA4R2FTWU0?oc=5\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porterville is the cheapest city to live in California in 2026, with a median home price of $325,000 and median rent of $1,358, both well below state averages. Its overall cost of living is 12% lower than the state average, earning it the highest affordability score. Other affordable California cities include Fresno, Bakersfield, Tulare, Eureka, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}