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 as the “salad bowl of the world”. Farm workers st...
Source: [Guardian US](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/03/salinas-california-john-steinbeck)