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    Steve Lopez: They're leaving California for Las Vegas to find the middle-class life that eluded them

    by Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times Dec 07, 2017 5 minutes

    LAS VEGAS - The rent steals so much of your paycheck, you might have to move back in with your parents, and half your life is spent staring at the rear end of the car in front of you.

    You'd like to think it will get better, but when? All around you, young and old alike are saying goodbye to California.

    "Best thing I could have done," said retiree Michael J. Van Essen, who was paying $1,160 for a one-bedroom apartment in L.A.'s Silver Lake neighborhood until a year and a half ago. Then he bought a house with a creek behind it for $165,000 in Mason City, Iowa, and now pays $500 a month less on his mortgage than he did on his rent in

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