All our friends and most of our family are in CA, and they are more important to us than money, so moving is a last-resort option (a great job offer isn’t enough). However, I hate the legislature, and I despise CARB, so if friends and family were out of the picture, we would likely escape to a small town in another state.
Part of me does feel trapped – but on the coast, the schools are good, it’s really not unreasonably expensive for a white collar professional to live modestly, and the weather is unbeatable. If this is prison, I can do life.
