Has anyone else paid attention to Housing prices? Wow

383Scampman said

But consider that the cost of living and your tax burden is less , sometimes a lot less . IT may work out to your advantage . Hundreds of hard working regular people , like yourself, move to Texas/Idaho/Utah every month . It is the quality of life that they seek . California a beautiful , I know , but how much crap can you take ?

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We've done the math. It just doesn't make financial sense for us to move out of state right now. When we retire in 17 yrs. - that's another story. The trick for us is to just not let the politics bother us. Like Jim said, it's not all San Francisco and Los Angeles in this state. Sure the income tax rate is relatively high, but we're willing to put up with it to maintain the lifestyle we have. Hell, once we actually do find a place to move to up the hill a bit (hopefully in the next few months), we'll be set for the rest of working lives, and maybe longer.