Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality

Venice has some of the most expensive beach property in America. When you can't afford to live someplace do like the rest of us... move. Go inland to Riverside County, or north to Bakersfield. Still too expensive? Try Fresno, Merced or Atwater.

The entitlement of so many that believing they have a right to live somewhere others worked their whole life to live is staggering.

I lived outside San Diego for years - when I was laid off I took a job in Northern California. I'd planned to work my way back to San Diego, but after the prisons started early releasing felons, violence and crime soared and junkies started camping on the sidewalks en masse, I realized it was time to leave my beloved home state of California. I - and most of the population - exercise our freedom to move when price, or crime, or lack of opportunity say it's time to move on. Take control of your life and move someplace affordable with opportunity. Become fiscally independent so you don't have to depend on others... your life will be much better.

Even if a sidewalk camper guilts someone into giving them a house in Venice, good luck coming up with the annual property taxes to keep it.