The American dream remains elusive in the valley that inspired East of Eden
John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas is the least affordable city in the US for the middle class, a recent Brookings Institution analysis found Nestled between two mountain ranges at the crook of central California’s coastline sits a valley known…
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Published3 h ago (Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:54 GMT)
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AuthorGaya Gupta in Salinas, California