Nothing more than transportation for most truck owners.Love Caravans, most practical vehicle built.

I'm emphasizing the closeness to public transportation because it is going to play a huge role moving forward especially due to the increase in traffic congestion.

However, there are so many things you can do on the expense side that a median US income is sufficient to save enough money for your first property in a few short years.Your biggest expenses are housing, transportation and food. 

The two largest expenses of the American household are housing costs and transportation.

We are now one of the leading transportation and logistics hubs in CA now, which has driven countless distribution centers, etc. to the area. 

You need to buy some kitchen equipment, one or two of the good basic cookbooks like "The Joy of Cooking" or Bittman's "How to Cook Everything," and build a sustainable repertoire of 10-15 cheap, healthy dinners with a few variations each that you can put together easily and quickly.Better for your pocket, better for your mental health because it will help ground you, better for your love life because smart, capable people appreciate personal cooking skills in others.The top three expenses of the American household, as @Scott Trench's book taught me, are housing, transportation, and food.

Imagine picking up the moving expense from California to NYC with vehicle transport costs too. 

All of the public transportation infrastructure is there, the dirt is there, but the city wants to maintain parking lots and light industrial / one story commercial here

I live a pretty minimalist lifestyle and don't require a lot of things outside of the essentials of food, transportation, and shelter.

They are right by the skytrain station (the arteries of transportation for the Lower Mainland) = higher rents, easy rentability.