Inside California’s unlikely new boomtown where homes sell for under $500K — as people flee overpriced city life in droves

Source: New York Post

While Los Angeles bleeds residents and businesses, an unlikely California city is rolling out the welcome mat. Fresno, once a national punch line thanks to Louis Theroux’s BBC documentary “The City Addicted to Crystal Meth,” is now the best place in the Golden State to start a business, a new study found, with cheap land, fast-tracked building rules and a $9 billion farm economy luring companies and coastal refugees alike. “Business owners see Fresno as the future of California due to its centralized location, affordability, and growing population.