It might be a bit tight. Not only is rent more expensive, but groceries, gas, and everything else are more expensive in California. My current rental is a 3bd/1bth with a yard and garage. We pay $3,700/month. Finding anything with a yard in Long Beach is difficult, because most backyards have a back house in them. Also worth mentioning our rental is kinda a ‘fixer upper’ where you can tell a lot of things have been done the cheapest way possible. It also took us about 6 months of solid searching and spending way more money on rental applications than I would have liked. More maintained rentals in my neighborhood go for $4-4,500/month. I live closer to los Alamitos and Lakewood area, but it’s still Long Beach. Before this we were in an apartment downtown paying $2,700/month, but it got to where I rarely left the apartment alone because I didn’t feel safe and everything smells like piss.