04-10-2009, 10:27 PM
To give you an idea, that income is about midway between the poverty thresholds for 3 and 4 person families for the LA area http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/pip/califpip.pdf . I'm not sure if living on that much in LA would be what I'd call "living". I lived in LA for 6 years with a much higher income than that and it was tough. I found it a lot cheaper to live in northern California (excepting the city of San Francisco itself).