Some people don't know about the opportunities.

Some people value being near family.

Some people are just afraid of change.

The entire discussion is making me want to finish an essay I started five months ago, when I left LA. But in short, there are up sides and down sides of relocating to an area with high demand; there's usually a reason for the demand.

CA appears to be imploding. I went to a college in LA in the early 90s. I recall it with the warm fuzzy lens time provides, particularly in the winter, but the property values need to be heavily discounted by the government's debt, built-in long-term deficits, and basic insanity of being run by contradictory mandates. And they have not been, at least not yet.

I, for one, didn't know LA was like that. Granted, I also wasn't looking, but I can't think of one of my classmates that moved out there from here over in the East.