While everyone else is selling kidneys to afford a studio apartment in San Francisco, there’s a little town in Kern County where you can actually buy a whole house without winning the lottery first.
Taft, California sits about 35 miles southwest of Bakersfield, and it’s the kind of place that makes you wonder if you’ve been doing this whole California living thing wrong.
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room, or rather, the oil derrick in the town square.
Taft is an oil town, and it doesn’t pretend to be anything else…