The kind of house going for $5500/mo mortgage in SoCal will be in a very affluent town like Irvine, where most households will be dual income white collar.
The article itself references Torrance, CA which has gentrified from working class Latino American and Asian American to upper middle class Asian American
Yea, my Irvine numbers are off. Torrance is becoming the next Irvine, due to a large Asian American community, decent schools, and relatively high paying employers nearby.
School district matters to Asian Americans, and Asian Americans skew in the highest income brackets in the US now, but we also prefer living in other AA neighborhoods because of cultural affinity.
The article itself references Torrance, CA which has gentrified from working class Latino American and Asian American to upper middle class Asian American