On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:23:27 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 7/27/2020 9:23 AM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:04:31 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 2:12:37 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>>>> On 7/26/2020 10:34 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 3:26:06 PM UTC-10, wrote:
>>>>>> On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 6:29:19 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can afford to buy meat but don't like the idea of paying $30 to $40 for a hunk of meat. The last meat I bought was $6 for some ground pork.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've not seen any meat here that is $30 to $40 per pound but then again I
>>>>>> don't look for meat priced that high. I did buy pork for carnitas this
>>>>>> past week and it certainly was nowhere near that per pound.
>>>>>
>>>>> My wife said that eggs on the mainland were going for $1.49/18. I bought some eggs the other day. They were $3.45/18. That was a major score because usually they're $5.49/18. I was quite pleased with myself.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At my local store here (Harris Teeter) a 30-count tray of eggs is only
>>>> $1.99. Same price it's always been and always available.
>>>>
>>>> Someone here told me that Walmart sells them even cheaper but I've never
>>>> shopped at Walmart for groceries. Just for their other stuff.
>>>
>>> My first trip to the mainland was to the San Francisco Bay Area.
>>> I was quite impressed at how cheap food was.
>>
>> When? During the '60s Frisco was the least expensive place to live...
>> was mostly salooons & bawdy houses left over from the gold rush days.
>>
>Uh... the "gold rush" in San Fransisco you speak of ended in 1855.
>There have been a few upgrades to the city since then, not to mention an
>earthquake that destroyed quite a lot. I guess you haven't priced real
>estate in the Bay area lately. I watched an episode of 'House Hunters'
>a few days ago. $1.5 million might get you a one bedroom/1 bath condo
>in the Bay area these days. You'd need a budget of closer to $1.7
>million to get 2 bedrooms. (When I say "condo" I'm talking about row
>houses - maybe you can relate better if you imagine a row of Brooklyn
>brownstones.)
>
>The last time I was in San Francisco (yep, it was 1969) Dad had been
>transferred to Thailand. We ate at a Chinese restaurant the night
>before we had to catch the flight. I'm pretty sure the food was dirt cheap.
>
>Jill

Prices in CA have undergone vast change since the '60s. I lived all
over CA then working in the aircraft industry. Pay was very high in
an attempt to draw skilled help from the east. My first job in CA was
for Lockheed... Boeing and Lockheed were competing for the supersonic
transport, in the end the French got it... the CA economy went under
water.
In 1961 the least expensive CA cities to live in were Frisco and
Diego. After the French won the big contract I went to Diego to work
for Hughs Tool, they were building heliocopters. During the year I
worked for Lockheed my take home pay was $444.00 per week. We rented
half a very nice 2 bedroom duplex in Monterey Park for $55/month. The
following year in Diego we rented a lovely 3 bedroom stand alone house
just north of the zoo for $60/month + $5 to rent a gas stove... at the
time rentals didn't include a stove, could rent one from the landlord
or use your own. At that time San Diego was the filthiest Navy town
I've ever seen, wall to wall gin mills, tattoo parlors, and whore
houses. I took the job at Hughs because the take home pay was $100 a
week more than from Lockheed in Burbank so we rented way out of town
by the zoo. My first week we lived in a hotel room in downtown Diego,
$10 per week.
The funny thing is that at that time Frisco was considered Southern
Cal, the snobs hate to be reminded.