In a state where people joke about needing a trust fund just to rent a closet, there’s a town where you can buy an entire house for less than a luxury car.
Taft, California sits in Kern County’s southwestern corner, about 35 miles from Bakersfield, offering home prices that make you wonder if someone forgot a zero.
Oil built Taft, and the town has never pretended otherwise or tried to rebrand itself as something more palatable to tourists.
Working derricks still dot the landscape around town, pumping away like they have for over a century, creating a skyline that’s uniquely industrial…