Closest you will come to Socal living is Florida. It has big cities, jobs, a lack of cold, an ocean, easy transportation to most of the USA etc etc. However, it does have humidity. Lots of it. But you can get a dehumidifier, and just suck it up. Housing prices there are doing worse than here, and you can weigh that trade off.
(Hurricans suck, but how is that really any different than the 4 year fire storm cycle we have here?)
